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David Tevele Schiff
David Tevele Schiff
1735 CE–1791 CE · Acharonim · Vienna
Rabbi David Tevele Schiff (died 1791) was an Ashkenazi rabbinic authority who served as rabbi of the Great Synagogue in London, a position that grew into recognition as Chief Rabbi of Britain's Ashkenazi communities. Born into a learned Frankfurt am Main family, he studied under Rabbi Jacob Joshua Falk, author of the Talmudic commentary Pnei Yehoshua. Before crossing to England he filled a succession of continental posts—preacher (maggid) in Vienna, head of the study house in Worms, and rabbinical judge (dayan) in Frankfurt—until his appointment to London in 1765. Over the following years the surrounding congregations came to accept his authority, consolidating the office. His Talmudic novellae and responsa were gathered after his death in the volume Leshon Zahav, arranged by his family and printed in Offenbach in 1822. Among his students was Rabbi Nathan Adler of Frankfurt.
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Stop 1 of 41755–1760Rabbinate
ViennaוינהAustria
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Major Central European Jewish center pre-Holocaust. Home of Isaac of Vienna (Or Zarua), R. Shimshon Raphael Hirsch's training, R. Akiva Eger's son-in-law Chatam Sofer.
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