Samuel Jacob Rabinowitz

Samuel Jacob Rabinowitz
TitleChief Rabbi of Liverpool
Personal life
Born1857 (1857)
Kelme, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire
Died1921 (aged 63–64)
Religious life
ReligionJudaism

Samuel Jacob Rabinowitz (Yiddish: שמואל יעקב בן שמעון מאיר ראבינאוויץ; 1857–1921) was a Lithuanian rabbi, writer, and Zionist leader. He has been described as the "greatest spokesman of religious Zionism before Reines."

Rabinowitz was born in Kelme, Kovno Governorate, in 1857. He became rabbi at Ivye in 1887, and was called in the same year to Aleksot. He was an early member of Ḥovevei Zion, and was a delegate to the Second Zionist Congress at Basel. He became rabbi of Sopotkin in 1900, and of Liverpool in 1906.

Work

Rabinowitz contributed a number of articles to Ha-Melitz, which later were published under the title Ha-Dat veha-Le'ummiyyut (Warsaw, 1900). A collection of his responsa and novellae were published as Sefer Oraḥ Yashar in Vilna in 1903.

Selected publications

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rosenthal, Herman; Eisenstadt, Benzion (1905). "Rabinovitz, Samuel Jacob". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 302.

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  2. ↑ Manor, Alexander, ed. (1960). Sopotkin: In Memory of the Jewish Community. Translated by Kramer, Alfred Neil. Tel Aviv. pp. 41–48 – via JewishGen.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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