Naftali Amsterdam
1832 CE–1916 CE · Acharonim · Salant
Naftali Amsterdam (1832–1916) was a Lithuanian rabbi associated with the early Mussar movement, the school of ethical self-cultivation founded by Rabbi Yisrael Salanter. Born in Salant (Salantai) to Rabbi Shlomo Amsterdam, he became one of Salanter's closest students and is remembered, alongside Yitzchak Blazer and Simcha Zissel Ziv Broida, as one of three disciples who each carried forward a distinct facet of their teacher's approach; Amsterdam was noted especially for personal piety. Over several decades he held rabbinic and communal posts in the northern Russian Empire, living in Helsinki and then St. Petersburg before serving from 1880 to 1906 as head of the rabbinical court in Novograd. He authored no books of his own. In 1906 he settled in Jerusalem, where he died in 1916 and was buried on the Mount of Olives.
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Salant
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About Salant
Salant (Lithuanian Salantai), a small town in northwestern Lithuania, is closely tied to the origins of the Mussar movement. It was the home of Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant, a disciple of Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin, who was the principal teacher of Rabbi Yisrael Lipkin; the latter came to be known as 'Salanter' after the town where he first achieved renown.
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In the same tradition
R' Zundel, Yisrael Salanter, Yisa Berakhah, Ben Ish Chai, Yitzchak Blazer, Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Zalman Sender Kahana-Shapiro, Sephardic Chief Rabbi, Yaakov Chaim Sofer (Kaf HaChaim), Yechiel Michel Tukachinsky, Yechiel Michel Tukatchinsky, Yisrael Zev Mintzberg, Tzvi Pesach Frank, Mishpetei Uziel, Yaakov Moshe Charlap, Aryeh Levin, Ezra Attia, Yehuda Ashlag
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Naftali Amsterdam’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Jewish world
- Tzadok HaKohen of Lublin· 1823 CE–1900 CE
- Elijah Benamozegh· 1823 CE–1900 CE
- Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv· 1824 CE–1898 CE
- Yechiel Michel Epstein· 1829 CE–1908 CE
- Rabbi Chaim Hezekiah Medini· 1832 CE–1904 CE
- R. Shalom Mordechai Schwadron (Maharsham of Berezhany)· 1835 CE–1911 CE
- R. Avraham Bornstein of Sochatchov (Avnei Nezer)· 1838 CE–1910 CE
- R. Yitzchak Eizik Weiss of Spinka· 1838 CE–1909 CE
- Israel Meir Kagan (Chafetz Chaim)· 1838 CE–1933 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
- Chaim Soloveitchik (founder of the Brisker derech)· 1853 CE–1918 CE
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Islamic world
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Rulers world
- José Martí· 1853 CE–1895 CE
- Franz Joseph I· 1830 CE–1916 CE
- Ito Hirobumi· 1841 CE–1909 CE
- Béhanzin· 1844 CE–1906 CE
- Porfirio Díaz· 1830 CE–1915 CE
- Grover Cleveland· 1837 CE–1908 CE
- Edward VII· 1841 CE–1910 CE
- Chief Joseph (Hinmatóowyalahtqʼit)· 1840 CE–1904 CE
- Murad V· 1840 CE–1904 CE
- William McKinley· 1843 CE–1901 CE
- Empress Dowager Cixi· 1835 CE–1908 CE
- Quanah Parker· 1845 CE–1911 CE
- Menelik II· 1844 CE–1913 CE
- Alexander III· 1845 CE–1894 CE
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