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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