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Maharam Schick

Maharam Schick

1807 CE–1879 CE · Acharonim · Brezova

Rabbi Moshe Schick (1807-1879), known by the acronym Maharam Schick, ranked among the foremost Hungarian halachic authorities of the nineteenth century. Born in Brezová (Birkenhain) in the Kingdom of Hungary, he studied under his uncle Rabbi Yitzchak (Isaac) Frankel at Frauenkirchen before entering the Pressburg yeshiva of Rabbi Moshe Sofer, the Chatam Sofer, becoming one of his most distinguished students. From 1838 he served as rabbi in Sväty Jur (Yergen), where he founded a yeshiva, and in 1861 he accepted the rabbinate of Huszt, moving his large student body to the Carpathian town, where he taught until his death. As the Neolog reform current spread, he became a prominent voice for traditionalist Judaism and took part in the Hungarian Jewish congress of 1868-1869. His responsa, Shu"t Maharam Schick, and his Talmudic novellae, Chiddushei Maharam Schick, remain widely studied.

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Chiddushei Maharam Schick

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Shu"t Maharam Schick

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