Samuel Jacob Rabinowitz
Lithuanian rabbi, writer, and Zionist leader
About Samuel Jacob Rabinowitz
Lived 1857 – 1921 (aged 63–64).
Samuel Jacob Rabinowitz (; 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.
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Who was Samuel Jacob Rabinowitz?
Lithuanian rabbi, writer, and Zionist leader
When was Samuel Jacob Rabinowitz born?
Samuel Jacob Rabinowitz was born in 1857.
When did Samuel Jacob Rabinowitz die?
Samuel Jacob Rabinowitz died on 13 June 1921.
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