Yehoshua Tzeitlin
1742 CE–1822 CE · Acharonim
Yehoshua Zeitlin (c. 1742–1822) was a Lithuanian Jewish scholar and community leader who lived during a transformative period in Eastern European Jewry. Active primarily in the Shklov region, he was known for his erudition in Talmud and halakha, and for his efforts to bridge traditional rabbinic learning with the intellectual currents of his era. Zeitlin was respected as both a talmid chakham and a thoughtful advocate for Jewish education and community welfare during the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath.
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Yehoshua Tzeitlin’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Jewish world
- Israel Hopstein of Kozhnitz· 1737 CE–1814 CE
- Chaim Tyrer of Czernowitz· 1740 CE–1817 CE
- Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev· 1740 CE–1809 CE
- Rabbi Yehuda HaKohen Heller· 1743 CE–1819 CE
- Rabbi Wolf Boskowitz· 1745 CE–1818 CE
- Jacob Isaac Horowitz· 1745 CE–1815 CE
- Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik Greishaber· 1745 CE–1823 CE
- Shneur Zalman of Liadi· 1745 CE–1812 CE
- Aryeh Leib HaKohen Heller· 1745 CE–1812 CE
- R. Dovid Biderman of Lelov· 1746 CE–1814 CE
- R. Refael Berdugo· 1747 CE–1821 CE
- Abraham Danzig· 1748 CE–1820 CE
- Avraham Yehoshua Heschel· 1748 CE–1825 CE
- Chaim of Volozhin· 1749 CE–1821 CE
- Rabbi Moshe Mintz· 1750 CE–1831 CE
- Kalonymus Kalman Epstein· 1751 CE–1823 CE
- R. Yosef Maman al-Maghribi· 1752 CE–1823 CE
- Rabbi Meshullam Igra· 1752 CE–1801 CE
- Rabbi Hertz Scheyer· 1753 CE–1822 CE
- Rabbi Mordechai Benet· 1753 CE–1829 CE
- Rabbi Elazar Fleckeles· 1754 CE–1826 CE
- David Solomon Eibeschutz· 1755 CE–1813 CE
- Rabbi Shalom Ullmann· 1755 CE–1825 CE
- Rabbi Betzalel Ronsburg· 1760 CE–1820 CE
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Christian world
Buddhist world
Scientists
Islamic world
Rulers world
- Bodawpaya· 1745 CE–1819 CE
- Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla· 1753 CE–1811 CE
- William Pitt the Younger· 1759 CE–1806 CE
- John Adams· 1735 CE–1826 CE
- Thomas Jefferson· 1743 CE–1826 CE
- Little Turtle (Mihšihkinaahkwa)· 1747 CE–1812 CE
- Selim III· 1761 CE–1808 CE
- George III· 1738 CE–1820 CE
- Paul I· 1754 CE–1801 CE
- Jeongjo of Joseon· 1752 CE–1800 CE
- Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea)· 1743 CE–1807 CE
- Tipu Sultan· 1751 CE–1799 CE
- Andrianampoinimerina· –1810 CE
- Louis XVIII· 1755 CE–1824 CE
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