Yaakov Reinowitz
1818 CE–1893 CE · Acharonim · Wilkowisk
Rabbi Yaakov Reinowitz (1818–1893), known familiarly as Reb Yankele, was a halachic authority active within Victorian Anglo-Jewry. Born in Wilkowisk, in the Russian-ruled Polish lands, he served as a rabbi in Eastern Europe before being called to London in 1876 to lead the Chevra Shas, a traditional congregation in the city's East End. In 1879 Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler appointed him a dayan of the London Beth Din, where he became its principal authority on questions of Jewish law. He maintained correspondence with leading European poskim—among them Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin of Volozhin and Isaac Elhanan Spektor of Kovno—and prepared responsa on contemporary questions, including the permissibility of machine-made matzah. His students included Moses Hyamson and Simeon Singer. He died in London in 1893.
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- Yitzchak Twersky of Skver· 1812 CE–1885 CE
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- Yaakov Leiner of Izhbitz· 1814 CE–1878 CE
- Naphtali Tzvi Yehudah Berlin (Netziv)· 1816 CE–1893 CE
- Yehuda Leib Eiger of Lublin· 1816 CE–1888 CE
- Rabbi Yom Tov Lipman Halpern· 1816 CE–1879 CE
- R. Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor (Kovno)· 1817 CE–1896 CE
- Heinrich (Zvi) Graetz· 1817 CE–1891 CE
- R. Yaakov Saul Eliashar· 1817 CE–1906 CE
- Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin· 1818 CE–1898 CE
- R. Eliyahu Mani· 1818 CE–1899 CE
- R. Yosef Dov Soloveitchik of Brisk (Beit HaLevi)· 1820 CE–1892 CE
- Rabbi Shimon Sofer· 1820 CE–1883 CE
- Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer· 1820 CE–1899 CE
- Tzadok HaKohen of Lublin· 1823 CE–1900 CE
- Elijah Benamozegh· 1823 CE–1900 CE
- Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv· 1824 CE–1898 CE
- R. Yehoshua Rokeach (Belz II)· 1825 CE–1894 CE
- R. Yehiel Danziger of Aleksander· 1828 CE–1894 CE
- Menachem Mendel Hager· 1830 CE–1884 CE
- Gershon Chanokh Leiner of Radzin· 1839 CE–1891 CE
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- Cetshwayo· 1826 CE–1884 CE
- James A. Garfield· 1831 CE–1881 CE
- Otto von Bismarck· 1815 CE–1898 CE
- Ouray· 1833 CE–1880 CE
- William Gladstone· 1809 CE–1898 CE
- Ulysses S. Grant· 1822 CE–1885 CE
- Rutherford B. Hayes· 1822 CE–1893 CE
- Chester A. Arthur· 1829 CE–1886 CE
- Pedro II of Brazil· 1825 CE–1891 CE
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