Maharsham
1835 CE–1911 CE · Acharonim · Bilkamin
The Maharsham was the rabbi the whole Jewish world wrote to. R. Shalom Mordechai HaKohen Schwadron (1835-1911), the Maharsham of Berezhany (Brzeżany), was the leading Galician halachic authority (posek) of his generation, receiving more religious-legal questions (shaylas) by mail than perhaps any rabbi of his era — on farming during the sabbatical year (shemitta), on early-modern technology, and on the tangled marriage and identity cases thrown up by mass emigration. His nine-volume Teshuvot Maharsham responsa addresses this extraordinary range of late-19th-century practical questions and remains a first-stop reference for later authorities (Acharonim). He served as chief judge of the rabbinic court (Av Beit Din) of Berezhany for over 40 years.
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Bilkamin
What they did here
Following his marriage he settled with his father-in-law in Bilkamin, where he ran a business dealing in timber.
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Maharsham’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Jewish world
- R. Yaakov Saul Eliashar· 1817 CE–1906 CE
- Tzadok HaKohen of Lublin· 1823 CE–1900 CE
- Elijah Benamozegh· 1823 CE–1900 CE
- Yechiel Michel Epstein· 1829 CE–1908 CE
- Rabbi Naftali Amsterdam· 1832 CE–1916 CE
- Rabbi Chaim Hezekiah Medini· 1832 CE–1904 CE
- Yosef Hayyim· 1835 CE–1909 CE
- Rabbi Yitzchak Blazer· 1837 CE–1907 CE
- R. Yitzchak Eizik Weiss of Spinka· 1838 CE–1909 CE
- R. Avraham Bornstein of Sochatchov (Avnei Nezer)· 1838 CE–1910 CE
- Gershon Chanokh Leiner of Radzin· 1839 CE–1891 CE
- Rabbi Eliezer Gordon· 1841 CE–1910 CE
- Rabbi Shlomo Elyashiv· 1841 CE–1926 CE
- Rabbi Eliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teomim· 1843 CE–1905 CE
- Rabbi Dovid Tzvi Hoffman· 1843 CE–1921 CE
- Meir Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk (Or Sameach, Meshech Chochmah)· 1843 CE–1926 CE
- Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky· 1845 CE–1913 CE
- Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter· 1847 CE–1905 CE
- Shlomo Halberstam (founder of Bobov)· 1847 CE–1905 CE
- Solomon Schechter (Cairo Genizah; JTS)· 1847 CE–1915 CE
- Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horowitz· 1847 CE–1919 CE
- R. Yisrael Taub (Modzitz founder)· 1849 CE–1920 CE
- R. Tzvi Hirsch Shapira (Munkacs II)· 1850 CE–1913 CE
- Yitzchak Friedman (Pachad Yitzchak of Boyan)· 1850 CE–1917 CE
Scientists
Luminaries & Explorers world
Buddhist world
Islamic world
Rulers world
- Franz Joseph I· 1830 CE–1916 CE
- Porfirio Díaz· 1830 CE–1915 CE
- Grover Cleveland· 1837 CE–1908 CE
- Chief Joseph (Hinmatóowyalahtqʼit)· 1840 CE–1904 CE
- Murad V· 1840 CE–1904 CE
- William McKinley· 1843 CE–1901 CE
- José Martí· 1853 CE–1895 CE
- Empress Dowager Cixi· 1835 CE–1908 CE
- Ito Hirobumi· 1841 CE–1909 CE
- Béhanzin· 1844 CE–1906 CE
- Edward VII· 1841 CE–1910 CE
- Alexander III· 1845 CE–1894 CE
- Geronimo (Goyaałé)· 1829 CE–1909 CE
- Norodom· 1834 CE–1904 CE
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