SCHWARTZ, JOSEPH HA-KOHEN
- SCHWARTZ, JOSEPH HA-KOHEN
- SCHWARTZ, JOSEPH HA-KOHEN (1877–1944), Hungarian rabbi and
author. Born in Felsővisó, Hungary (now Viseul-de-Sus in Romania),
Schwartz was the son of Naphtali ha-Kohen Schwartz and a pupil of
jacob tennenbaum . He edited the periodical Va-Yelakket
Yosef for 20 years, from 1899 to 1918, in Bonyhad. In 1924 he
moved to Grosswardein (Oradea), where he served as rabbi to the Maḥzikei
Torah society and published several important books.
The most valuable are: Ẓafenat Pa'ne'aḥ (1909), notes on the
Yad Yiẓḥak of Abraham Isaac Glueck; Ginzei Yosef
(1930); and Va-Yiẓbor Yosef (1936), responsa. A detailed
bibliography of his many publications published by Ben-Menahem in his
Mi-Sifrut Yisrael be-Ungaryah (1958, 330–70), includes his
testament, written a few months before his death in the Holocaust,
together with a biography of him.
(Naphtali Ben-Menahem)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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