Samuel Loew

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Samuel ben Nathan Loew (Kolin) (ca. 1720-1806) (also "Lōw" or "Löw", Hebrew: שמואל בן נטע הלוי קעלין) was a Talmudist, son of Naṭe ha-Levi (נטע = Nathan), born at Kolin, Bohemia. For nearly sixty years he presided over a yeshibah at Boskowitz, Moravia, where he died on May 20, 1806.

He wrote the following works:

• Mahazit ha-Shekel, an extensive subcommentary on Abraham Abele Gombiner's Magen Abraham on Shulhan Aruk, Oraḥ Ḥayyim (Vienna, 1807-1808; 2d ed. 1817; several times reprinted)
• Hilkot Niddah (Lemberg, 1858)
• Hilkot Meliḥah (ib. 1860)

His son Wolf Boskowitz delivered the sermon at his funeral (Ma'amar Esther, Ofen, 1837). His descendant in the fifth generation, Dr. Max Anton Löw, a convert to Roman Catholicism, was the attorney of the anti-Semite Francis Deckert (Mittheilungen der Gesell. zur Abwehr des Antisemitismus, 1896, pp. 45, 48; 1897, pp. 190, 216; Oest. Wochenschrift, 1896, p. 65).

[edit] Jewish Encyclopedia Bibliography

• Walden, Shem ha-Gedolim he-Ḥadash, ii.44, Warsaw, 1880;
• Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 321;
• Fürst, Bibl. Jud. s.v. Kollin, Samuel;
• Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. p. 417.

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.