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Born November 28, 1873 • Kaunas • Lithuania
Died November 11, 1953 (aged 79) • New York City • New York
Subjects Of Study Halakhah • Judaism • folklore
Ashi
Babylonian-Jewish scholar
Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi
Jewish scholar
Mordecai Menahem Kaplan
American rabbi
Philo Judaeus
Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher
Moses Maimonides
Moses Maimonides
Jewish philosopher, scholar, and physician
Akiva ben Yosef
Akiva ben Yosef
Jewish sage and rabbinic founder
Johanan ben Zakkai
Jewish scholar
Rashi, from a French postage stamp.
Rashi
French religious scholar
Judah ha-Nasi
Jewish scholar
Gamaliel I
Jewish scholar
Yom Ṭov Lipmann ben Nathan ha-Levi Heller
Bohemian rabbi and scholar
Lag ba-ʿOmer
Shimon bar Yochai
Jewish scholar
Meïr
Jewish rabbi and scholar
Jacob Israel Emden
Danish rabbi
Adolf Jellinek
European Jewish rabbi and scholar
Asher ben Jehiel
Spanish rabbi
Moses ben Samuel ibn Tibbon
Jewish physician and translator
Isaac ben Moses Of Vienna
European scholar
Amram bar Sheshna
Jewish scholar
Isaiah ben Judah Loeb Berlin
Hungarian scholar