List of Polish rabbis

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Contents 1 Rabbis philosophers born on Posen, West Prussia, etc 2 Rabbis and philosophers born on Austrian Galicia 3 Rabbis philosophers born on Silesia, Brandenburg, Pomerania & Eastern Prussia 4 See also

The rise of Hasidic Judaism within Poland's borders and beyond has had a great influence on the rise of Haredi Judaism all over the world, with a continuous influence that has been felt from the inception of the Hasidic movements and its dynasties by famous rebbes until the present time. The following are noteworthy:

• Aleksander Hasidism
• Belz Hasidism
• Bobov Hasidism
• Ger Hasidism
• Nadvorna Hasidism
• Sassov Hasidism

Some famous Polish and Polish-born rabbis include:

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• Avraham Mordechai Alter ()
• Pinchas Menachem Alter ()
• Simchah Bunim Alter ()
• Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter ()
• Yaakov Aryeh Alter ()
• Yitzchak Meir Alter ()
• Baruch Ashlag ()
• Yehuda Ashlag ()
• Zvi Hirsch Chajes ()
• Avraham Danzig ()
• Elimelech of Lizhensk ()
• Joshua Falk ()
• Yaakov Gesundheit ()
• Avraham Gombiner ()
• Kalonymus Haberkasten ()
• Yitzchok Hutner ()
• Yisrael Meir Lau (later Chief rabbi of Israel)
• Menachem Mendel of Kotzk ()
• Shalom Rokeach of Belz ()
• Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin ()
• Jeremy Bell ()

[edit] Rabbis philosophers born on Posen, West Prussia, etc

• Ismar Elbogen
• Abraham Joshua Heschel
• Samuel Holdheim
• Kaufmann Kohler
• Moritz Lazarus
• Hermann Tietz (rabbi)
• Case (rabbi)

See also List of German Jews;

[edit] Rabbis and philosophers born on Austrian Galicia

• Rabbi Jacob Avigdor
• Rabbi Salo Baron
• Buber pedigree
• Zwi Perez Chajes/Zvi Perez Chajes
• Rebbe Aharon Rokeach of Belz
• Rebbe Shalom Rokeach of Belz
• Rebbe Yissachar Dov Rokeach (I) of Belz
• Provencal origin Schor and derivated - Wolowski (Chrisian), Wohl, Brodski, Margoliouth, Twiaschor (Chrisian) - rabbis and scholars of pedigree
• Friedrich Weinreb

See also List of Austrian Jews;

[edit] Rabbis philosophers born on Silesia, Brandenburg, Pomerania & Eastern Prussia

• See List of German Jews;

[edit] See also

• List of Polish Jews, List of North European Jews (Lithuania, etc), List of East European Jews (Southern Lithuania - Belarus), List of Ukrainian Jews (Ukraine - Galicia, Volhynia, et.al.)
• List of Hasidic dynasties

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