DEUTSCH, ELIEZER ḤAYYIM BEN ABRAHAM
- DEUTSCH, ELIEZER ḤAYYIM BEN ABRAHAM
- DEUTSCH, ELIEZER ḤAYYIM BEN ABRAHAM (1850–1916), Hungarian
talmudist and author. Deutsch was born in Petra, near Kaschau. He
studied under Menahem Eisenstadt of Ungvar, Judah Aszód, and
solomon ganzfried . In 1876 he was appointed rabbi of Hunfalu,
and, in 1897, of the important community of Bonyhad, where he founded
and headed a large yeshivah. Deutsch was a leader of Hungarian
Orthodoxy, and a supporter of the "Moriah" association for the
advancement of Orthodox Judaism, founded in 1905 by Meir Lerner in
Altona.
A prolific writer, his books are (1) Tevu'ot ha-Sadeh in six
parts (1892–1904), novellae on talmudic themes with responsa appended to
each part; (2) Ḥelkat ha-Sadeh (1901), glosses and notes on
the Ara de-Rabbanan of israel jacob algazi ; (3)
Peri ha-Sadeh in four parts (1906–15), responsa; (4)
Si'aḥ ha-Sadeh (1914), aggadic novellae on the Torah and for
festivals. Published posthumously were (5) Ẓemaḥ ha-Sadeh
(1917), novellae and responsa on the problems of agunot; (6)
Duda'ei ha-Sadeh (1929, published by his son, Moses),
responsa and a selection of rulings with respect to the laws of
mourning. In the Yizraḥ Or of David meldola , there is
an appendix by Deutsch, Omer ha-Sadeh, that comprises the
laws for determining the New Moon. Halakhic queries were addressed to
Deutsch from many parts of the world.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Deutsch, in: Tevu'ot ha-Sadeh, 5 (1902), introduction; S.N.
Gottlieb, Oholei Shem (1912), 218; P.Z. Schwartz, Shem
ha-Gedolim me-Ereẓ Hagar, 1 (1913), 196, no. 254; 3 (1915),
S.V. book-titles; N. Ben-Menahem, Mi-Sifrut Yisrael
be-Ungaryah (1958), 172, no. 95, 331, n. 3.
(Itzhak Alfassi)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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