FEIGENBAUM, ISAAC HA-KOHEN

FEIGENBAUM, ISAAC HA-KOHEN: FEIGENBAUM, ISAAC HA-KOHEN (1826–1911), Polish rabbi and posek. Feigenbaum studied under R. Isaac Meir Alter of Gur (gora kalwaria ). In 1893 he founded the first periodical devoted to rabbinic studies, the monthly Sha'arei Torah, to which leading contemporary rabbis contributed, and in which he himself wrote the leading article. The journal was continued after his death by his son, Israel Isser Feigenbaum, and ceased publication only at the outbreak of World War II. Among Feigenbaum's works are a critical edition of the Urim ve-Tummim of jonathan eybeschuetz with his own commentary (Warsaw, 1881). Feigenbaum was one of the few Polish rabbis, particularly among the Ḥasidim (he was an adherent of the kotsk dynasty), who was an ardent supporter of the Ḥibbat Zion movement. He was a member of the Menuḥah ve-Naḥalah Society of Warsaw which founded Reḥovot , and he himself purchased land under the aegis of the society. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: J.J. Feigenbaum, Or Penei Yiẓḥak (1939, reprint 1966). (Louis Isaac Rabinowitz)

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