QUETSCH, SOLOMON

QUETSCH, SOLOMON: QUETSCH, SOLOMON (1798–1856), Moravian Orthodox rabbi. A native of mikulov (Nikolsburg) and pupil of Mordecai banet , he officiated as rabbi at Piesling and lipnik (1832–54). He was the last representative of the old Orthodoxy and the chief opponent of samson raphael hirsch as Moravian landesrabbiner . In May 1855 he became rabbi of Mikulov, but the position was not combined with that of Landesrabbiner. His death in January 1856 caused the closing of the Mikulov yeshivah. A few of his novellae were published as Ḥokhmat Shelomo together with the Prague edition of Mordecai Banet's Har ha-Mor (1862). S.J. Rapoport wrote a commemorative poem on him in Kokhevei Yiẓḥak, (22, (1856), 3). -BIBLIOGRAPHY: A. Schnitzer, Juedische Kulturbilder (1904), 38–56. (Meir Lamed)

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Solomon Quetsch — was an Austrian rabbi and Talmudist. He was born at Nikolsburg, Moravia on October 13, 1798, and died there January 30, 1856. He was educated at the yeshiva of his native city under Mordechai Benet, and was his premier disciple. He officiated as… … Wikipedia
Mikulov — Coordinates: 48°48′20.01″N 16°38′00″E / 48.8055583°N 16.6333333°E / 48.8055583; 16.6333333 … Wikipedia
LIPNIK NAD BECVOU — (Czech. Lipník nad Bečvou; Ger. Leipnik), town in N.E. Moravia, Czech Republic. A synagogue is first mentioned there in 1540, though a Jewish settlement existed at least a century before. Most of Lipnik s Jews were engaged in textile production… … Encyclopedia of Judaism

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