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Rabbi Avraham Eisenstadt
Rabbi Avraham Eisenstadt
1812 CE–1868 CE · Acharonim · Bialystok
Rabbi Avraham Tzvi Hirsch ben Yaakov Eisenstadt, known from Byelostok, authored the influential *Pitchei Teshuvah*, a comprehensive index to the responsa and decisions of acharonim on the topics of the Shulchan Aruch. A descendant of Rabbi Meir Eisenstadt, author of the *Panim Me'irot*, he served as rabbi in several communities in the Russian Empire. The work remains a standard reference in halachic study.
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BialystokביאליסטוקNortheast Poland — Litvish-Hasidic frontier
What they did here
Born to Rabbi Yaakov Eisenstadt, a descendant of Rabbi Meir Eisenstadt, author of the responsa *Panim Me'irot*. Began composing his major work *Pitchei Teshuvah* at an early age. The sefer serves as the primary index to acharonim responsa on the Shulchan Aruch.
About Bialystok
Bialystok was a major Lithuanian-Polish Jewish center on the seam between Litvish and Hasidic worlds. R. Chaim Halberstam (Sanz dynasty) and R. Chaim Soloveitchik both had students teaching here. The city was 70% Jewish in 1900 (41,000 Jews); the community was annihilated in the Bialystok Ghetto uprising of August 1943.