Moses Abigdor Lichtenstadt

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Moses Abigor Lichtenstadt (1787-1870) was a Hebraist and Talmud scholar from Lublin, Poland. He was known for his great charity towards poor students, and helped found public schooling for Jewish children in Odessa. He wrote a number of articles on Biblical and Talmudic subjects for various publications, as well as Mi-Mochorat ha-Shabbat (Vienna, 1860) against the Karaites.

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