Wiener Neustadt

Wiener Neustadt, a town in Lower Austria south of Vienna, became a center of Talmudic study in the fifteenth century under Rabbi Israel Isserlein, the foremost halachic authority of German Jewry in his day and author of the responsa Terumat HaDeshen. Isserlein served as rabbi and av beit din there from 1445 until his death in 1460, attracting many students.

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