Yehoshua Leib Diskin
1818 CE–1898 CE · Acharonim · Grodno (Belarus)
Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin, later known as the Maharil Diskin and remembered as the "Brisker Rav," was born in Grodno in 1818, the son of Rabbi Binyamin Diskin. Recognized early for his Talmudic ability, he received rabbinic ordination as a young man and, in his mid-twenties, succeeded his father in the rabbinate of Łomża. Over the following decades he held rabbinical posts in a succession of communities, among them Mezritch, Kovno, Shklov, and finally Brest-Litovsk (Brisk), the town most associated with his name. In 1878 he settled in Jerusalem, where he became a central figure in the city's Ashkenazi community and resisted efforts by maskilim to introduce secular schooling. There he founded the Ohel Moshe yeshiva and, in 1881, the Diskin Orphan Home. He died in Jerusalem in 1898.
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Grodno (Belarus)Western Russia / Lithuania
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About Grodno (Belarus)
Grodno (Hrodna), a city in western Belarus near the Lithuanian and Polish borders, had a large Jewish community and was a noted center of Lithuanian Torah learning. Until 1939 it was home to the Sha'ar HaTorah yeshiva headed by Rabbi Shimon Shkop, one of the most influential roshei yeshiva of the Lithuanian world, whose analytical method shaped a generation; the yeshiva fled to Vilna at the Soviet occupation while Shkop, too ill to travel, died in Grodno.
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Hannah Rachel Verbermacher, Yisrael Salanter, Nachum Kaplan, Yisa Berakhah, Yosef Dov Soloveitchik of Brisk, Ben Ish Chai, Yeruham Perelman, Chief Rabbi of Cairo, Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Sephardic Chief Rabbi, Moshe Sokolovsky, Yechiel Michel Tukachinsky, Yechiel Michel Tukatchinsky, Yisrael Zev Mintzberg, Tzvi Pesach Frank, Efrayim Shemuʼel Lerner-Feferman, Jacob Nachum Epstein, Mishpetei Uziel
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Jewish world
- Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler· 1803 CE–1890 CE
- Shlomo Ganzfried· 1804 CE–1886 CE
- Samson Raphael Hirsch· 1808 CE–1888 CE
- Yitzchak Twersky of Skver· 1812 CE–1885 CE
- R. Abdallah Somekh· 1813 CE–1889 CE
- 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. Eliyahu Mani· 1818 CE–1899 CE
- Rabbi Yaakov Reinowitz· 1818 CE–1893 CE
- Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer· 1820 CE–1899 CE
- Rabbi Shimon Sofer· 1820 CE–1883 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
- Yechiel Michel Epstein· 1829 CE–1908 CE
- Menachem Mendel Hager· 1830 CE–1884 CE
- Rabbi Chaim Hezekiah Medini· 1832 CE–1904 CE
- Gershon Chanokh Leiner of Radzin· 1839 CE–1891 CE
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Rulers world
- Pedro II of Brazil· 1825 CE–1891 CE
- Rutherford B. Hayes· 1822 CE–1893 CE
- Chester A. Arthur· 1829 CE–1886 CE
- Crazy Horse (Tȟašúŋke Witkó)· 1840 CE–1877 CE
- Lobengula· –1894 CE
- Otto von Bismarck· 1815 CE–1898 CE
- Ouray· 1833 CE–1880 CE
- Queen Victoria· 1819 CE–1901 CE
- James A. Garfield· 1831 CE–1881 CE
- Manuelito (Hastiin Ch'il Haajiní)· 1818 CE–1893 CE
- Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake)· 1831 CE–1890 CE
- Cetshwayo· 1826 CE–1884 CE
- William Gladstone· 1809 CE–1898 CE
- Ulysses S. Grant· 1822 CE–1885 CE
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