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.
17 teachers · 3 works · 12 most-discussed ideas
Teachers who lived here
The Or Zarua
Yitzchak ben Moshe of Vienna (1180–1250)
The Sma
Joshua Falk (1555–1614)
custom 1611
Shlah
Rabbi Yeshayahu HaLevi Horowitz (1555–1630)
rabbinate 1602–1605
Tosafot Yom Tov
Yom Tov Lipmann Heller (1578–1654)
custom 1629
Kikayon DeYonah
Rabbi Yonah Teomim-Frankel (1595–1669)
custom 1648
Sha'ar Ephraim
Rabbi Ephraim HaKohen (1616–1678)
rabbinate 1655–1678
Rabbi Yonah Landsofer
Rabbi Yonah Landsofer (1678–1712)
custom 1710
Rabbi David Tevele Schiff
Rabbi David Tevele Schiff (1735–1791)
rabbinate 1755–1760
Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik Greishaber
Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik Greishaber (1745–1823)
publication 1799
Rabbi David Deutsch
Rabbi David Deutsch (1756–1831)
publication 1822
Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Margolios
Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Margolios (1762–1828)
rabbinate 1786–1828
Rabbi Aharon Chorin
Rabbi Aharon Chorin (1766–1844)
publication 1828–1839
Rabbi Dovid Tzvi Hoffman
Rabbi Dovid Tzvi Hoffman (1843–1921)
study 1865–1871
The Boyaner Rebbe (I)
Yisrael Friedman (Pachad Yitzchak of Boyan) (1850–1917)
Rabbi Yosef Engel
Rabbi Yosef Engel (1858–1919)
death 1914–1919
Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Taubes
Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Taubes (1900–1966)
custom 1936
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The Shevet HaLevi
Shmuel Wosner (1913–2015)
birth 1913
Works composed here
- 1220
Or Zarua
by The 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
- Chametz (Leaven)31 passages
- Pesach (Festival of Passover, umbrella)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
- Chalitzah (Release from Yibum)21 passages