Viennaוינה
Austria
Major Central European Jewish center pre-Holocaust. Home of Isaac of Vienna (Or Zarua), R. Shimshon Raphael Hirsch's training, R. Akiva Eger's son-in-law Chatam Sofer.
20 teachers · 3 works · 12 most-discussed ideas
Teachers who lived here
Yitzchak ben Moshe of Vienna
Yitzchak ben Moshe of Vienna (1180–1250)
wrote 1245–1270
Conrad Grebel
Conrad Grebel (1498–1526)
university study 1515–1518
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Joshua Falk (1555–1614)
custom 1611
Tosafot Yom Tov
Yom Tov Lipmann Heller (1578–1654)
custom 1629
Kikayon DeYonah
Rabbi Yonah Teomim-Frankel (1595–1669)
custom 1648
Yonah Landsofer
Rabbi Yonah Landsofer (1678–1712)
custom 1710
David Tevele Schiff
Rabbi David Tevele Schiff (1735–1791)
rabbinate 1755–1760
Yitzchak Eizik Greishaber
Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik Greishaber (1745–1823)
publication 1799
David Deutsch
Rabbi David Deutsch (1756–1831)
publication 1822
Ephraim Zalman Margolios
Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Margolios (1762–1828)
rabbinate 1817–1828
Aharon Chorin
Rabbi Aharon Chorin (1766–1844)
publication 1828–1839
Dovid Tzvi Hoffman
Rabbi Dovid Tzvi Hoffman (1843–1921)
study 1865–1871
Solomon Schechter
Solomon Schechter (Cairo Genizah; JTS) (1847–1915)
studied 1875–1879
Yitzchak Friedman
Yitzchak Friedman (Pachad Yitzchak of Boyan) (1850–1917)
Yosef Engel
Rabbi Yosef Engel (1858–1919)
death 1914–1919
Jacob Nachum Epstein
Jacob Nachum Epstein (1878–1952)
studied 1905–1912
Martin Buber
Martin (Mordechai) Buber (1878–1965)
born 1878–1892
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Sarah Schenirer
Sarah Schenirer (1883–1935)
traveled 1914–1917
Chaim Tzvi Taubes
Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Taubes (1900–1966)
custom 1936
Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner (1904–1984)
pastoral and academic work 1938–1944
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988)
university studies 1923–1925
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Shmuel Wosner
Shmuel Wosner (1913–2015)
birth 1913
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924–2014)
studied 1933–1938
Works composed here
- 1220
Or Zarua
- 1455
Darkhei HaTalmud
- 1460
Terumat HaDeshen
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Vienna. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.
- Get (Bill of Divorce)47 passages
- Minhag (Custom)46 passages
- Shabbat (The Sabbath)45 passages
- Talmudic Method (Sugya Structure and Argumentation)39 passages
- Pesach (Festival of Passover, umbrella)31 passages
- Chametz (Leaven)31 passages
- Safek (Halachic Doubt)30 passages
- Edut (Testimony)29 passages
- Kiddushin (Betrothal / Marriage Sanctification)28 passages
- Shevuah (Oath)25 passages
- Dinei Mamonot (Monetary Law)24 passages
- Treifah (18 Categories of Fatal Defects)21 passages