Shu"t Rabbeinu Meshullam Igra
Full text not yet available in our corpus.
R
Meshullam Igra
Meshullam Igra
1752 CE–1801 CE · Acharonim · Buchach (Buczacz)
Rabbi Meshullam Igra (c. 1752-1801) was a Galician-born halakhic authority whose career carried him from Poland into Hungary. Born in Buczacz to a rabbinical family, he studied in Brody, where as a youth he already delivered public Talmudic discourses, and he married a daughter of Isaac Horowitz, rabbi of the combined Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbeck communities. Still a young man, he was appointed rabbi of Tismenitz, where he drew students from across Poland and Hungary; among those linked to his teaching were Jacob Lorberbaum of Lissa and Mordecai Benet. In 1794 he took up the rabbinate of Pressburg (Bratislava), which he held until his death and in which he was a predecessor to Moses Sofer, the Chasam Sofer. His Talmudic novellae and responsa were later gathered in the collections Igra Ramah and Shu\"t Rabbeinu Meshullam Igra.
Life journeyclick any stop, or use ←/→Trace on the orchard map →
✦
Stop 1 of 41752Born
Buchach (Buczacz)Galicia (Ukraine)
What they did here
Birthplace.
About Buchach (Buczacz)
Buchach (Polish Buczacz, today in Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine), a town in eastern Galicia, had a vibrant Jewish community with both chasidic and maskilic currents. It was the birthplace of the rabbinic scholar Rabbi Meshulam Igra and the longtime home of Rabbi Avraham David Wahrman, who served as its rav; it was also the birthplace of the Nobel laureate Hebrew author Shmuel Yosef Agnon, who set much of his fiction there.
The world in their lifetime
✦
Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Meshullam Igra’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Islamic world
Buddhist world
Christian world
Works(2)
Igra Ramah
Full text not yet available in our corpus.