LANDAU, ISRAEL JONAH BEN JOSEPH HA-LEVI
- LANDAU, ISRAEL JONAH BEN JOSEPH HA-LEVI
- LANDAU, ISRAEL JONAH BEN JOSEPH HA-LEVI (d. 1824), rabbi and
author. Landau belonged to a well-known rabbinical family. In his youth
he was av bet din of Lubomil and from 1786 served in Kempen,
Posen region. Among his published works are Me'on ha-Berakhot
(Dyhrenfurth, 1816), novellae on tractate Berakhot, which is
the first part of his work Keneset Yisrael (the other parts
remained unpublished); Shirat Yisrael (1897), expositions of
the Bible, aggadot in the Talmud, and Midrashim; Ein
ha-Bedolaḥ (1901), novellae to tractates of the Talmud
(Pesaḥim, Megillah, Yoma, Sukkah, and Rosh
ha-Shanah); and Aleh de-Yonah (1934), expositions of
aggadot in the Jerusalem Talmud of Zevaḥim and
Mo'ed. He was also a well-known kabbalist, and a request to
him from Akiva Eger for an amulet for the sick of Posen has been
preserved. His son JOSEPH SAMUEL (1800–1836) was
appointed to succeed his father as rabbi of Kempen on the recommendation
of Akiva Eger. Joseph Samuel was the author of Mishkan
Shiloh, of which only one part, Kur ha-Beḥinah
(Breslau, 1837), was published, comprising 25 responsa and seven sermons
– the last in honor of Emperor Frederick William III. In
the introduction the author refers to many works of his still in
manuscript. His Goren Atad (Warsaw, 1837), a memorial sermon
on Jehiel Michael Ettinger, has also been published. He corresponded on
halakhah with the leading rabbis of his time, including Akiva
Eger, Ephraim Zalman Margulies, and Solomon Zalman Posner.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Fuenn, Keneset, 696; I.T. Eisenstein and S. Wiener, Da'at
Kedoshim (1897–98), 127, 133; Z.J. Michelsohn, in: I.J. Landau,
Shirat Yisrael (1897), 2–4; idem, in: Ein
ha-Bedolaḥ (1901), introd.; Ḥ.D. Friedberg, Luḥot
Zikkaron (1904), 11n.; idem, Benei Landau
le-Mishpeḥotam (1905), 21f.; A. Heppner and J. Herzberg,
Aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart der Juden und der juedischen
Gemeinden in den Posener Landen (1909), 518f.; S. Sofer
(Schreiber), Iggerot Soferim (1929), pt. 1, 17f.
(Itzhak Alfassi)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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