EGER, AKIVA BEN SIMḤAH BUNIM

EGER, AKIVA BEN SIMḤAH BUNIM: EGER, AKIVA BEN SIMḤAH BUNIM (c. 1720–1758), rabbi and author, known as R. Akiva Eger the Elder. A native of Halberstadt, he was a pupil of Ẓevi Hirsch Bialeh (Ḥarif) of Halberstadt and Jacob ha-Kohen Poppers of Frankfurt. Around 1747, he served as rabbi of Zuelz (Upper Silesia). He conducted a yeshivah in Halberstadt even during the lifetime of his teacher Bialeh, and in 1756, became head of the yeshivah of Pressburg. Eger, who was among the foremost talmudic scholars of his generation, carried on halakhic correspondence with jonathan eybeschuetz , meir eisenstadt , and other prominent rabbis. His novellae on the Talmud, Mishnah de-Rabbi Akiva, to which are appended a number of his responsa, were published posthumously (Fuerth, 1781). Eger had two sons, Judah Loeb, who served as rabbi in Halberstadt, and Wolf, rabbi of Leipnick. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: B.H. Auerbach, Geschichte der israelitischen Gemeinde Halberstadt (1866), 33, 71; I. Weiss, Avnei Beit ha-Yoẓer (1900), pt. 2, 35b–37b; L. Wreschner, in: JJLG, 2 (1904), 32f.; P. Frankl, in: Nachlat Z'wi, 7 (1937), 320; S. Weingarten, in: Arim ve-Immahot be-Yisrael, 7 (1960), 38. (Jacob Haberman)

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EGER, SIMḤAH BUNIM BEN MOSES — (1770–1829), Hungarian talmudist, younger brother of akiva eger the Younger. Eger was also known by the family names of Guens and Schlesinger. After studying under his brother Akiva and then continuing his studies in Krotoszyn, he was appointed… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
AḤARONIM — (Heb. אַחֲרוֹנִים; lit. the later (authorities), a term used to designate the later rabbinic authorities, in contrast to the rishonim , the earlier authorities. Although scholars differ as to the exact chronological dividing line between the two … Encyclopedia of Judaism

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