Biographies: Notable Jewish Religious Leaders
Updated August 5, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
Notable Jewish Religious Leaders
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- Abravanel or Abarbanel, Isaac, Jewish theologian
- Abravanel or Abarbanel, Judah, Jewish philosopher, physician, and poet
- Aha of Shabcha, Babylonian rabbi
- Ahad Ha-am, Jewish thinker and Zionist leader
- Akiba ben Joseph, Jewish Palestinian religious leader
- Al-Fasi, Isaac ben Jacob ha-Kohen, prominent Jewish Talmudic scholar
- Amram ben Scheschna, Hebrew scholar
- Anan ben David, Babylonian Jewish theologian, founder of the Ananites
- Ashi or Asser, Rab, Jewish scholar of Babylon
- Baal-Shem-Tov, Jewish founder of modern Hasidism
- Baeck, Leo, German rabbi and scholar
- Bar Kokba, Simon, Hebrew hero and leader
- Berkovits, Eliezer, rabbi, theologian, and educator
- Bostanai ben Chaninai, first Jewish exilarch
- Caro or Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim, eminent Jewish codifier of law
- Delmedigo, Elijah ben Moses Abba, Jewish philosopher and Talmudist
- Deutsch, Gotthard, Austrian Jewish scholar and historian
- Dubnow, Simon, Jewish historian and ideologist
- Duran, Jewish family of scholars
- Einhorn, David, Jewish theological writer and leader of the Reform movement in Judaism in the United States
- Elijah ben Solomon, Jewish scholar
- Fackenheim, Emil Ludwig, Canadian-Israeli rabbi and philosopher
- Frankel, Zecharias, Jewish theologian
- Friedmann, Meir, Hungarian Jewish scholar
- Gamaliel of Jabneh, Jewish scholar
- Gaster, Moses, Romanian Jewish scholar and writer
- Geiger, Abraham, German rabbi
- Gersonides, Jewish philosopher
- Ginsburg, Christian David, English Hebrew scholar
- Gollancz, Sir Hermann, English rabbi and authority on Hebrew language and literature
- Gottheil, Gustav, American Reform rabbi
- Grätz or Graetz, Heinrich, German Jewish historian
- Herrera, Abraham Cohen de, Jewish philosopher and kabbalist
- Heschel, Abraham Joshua, American Jewish philosopher and theologian
- Hillel, Jewish scholar
- Hirsch, Emil Gustav, American rabbi
- Hirsch, Samson Raphael, German rabbi and chief exponent of Neo-Orthodoxy
- Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meir, Jewish grammarian, commentator, poet, philosopher, and astronomer
- Isserles, Moses ben Israel, Polish rabbi, annotator, and philosopher
- Johanan ben Zakkai, leader of the Pharisees
- Judah ha-Levi, Jewish rabbi, poet, and philosopher
- Judah ha-Nasi, Palestinian Jewish communal leader
- Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem, American rabbi
- Kimhi, family of Jewish scholars and grammarians
- Kohler, Kaufmann, American rabbi
- Kook, Abraham Isaac, Jewish scholar and philosopher
- Krauskopf, Joseph, American rabbi and humanitarian
- Krochmal, Nachman, Jewish secular historian and writer
- Luria or Loria, Isaac ben Solomon, Jewish kabbalist
- Maccabees, family of Jewish leaders
- Maimonides, Jewish scholar
- Manasseh ben Israel, Jewish scholar and communal leader
- Moses, Hebrew lawgiver
- Onkelos, translator of the Hebrew Bible
- Rashi, Jewish exegete
- Roth, Cecil, Jewish historian and educator
- Saadia ben Joseph al-Fayumi, Jewish scholar
- Schechter, Solomon, Jewish scholar
- Scholem, Gershom Gerhard, Jewish scholar
- Shammai, Jewish sage
- Silver, Abba Hillel, American rabbi and Zionist leader
- Sokolow, Nahum, Jewish writer and Zionist leader
- Soloveitchik, Joseph, Jewish Talmudist and philosopher
- Szold, Henrietta, American Zionist leader
- Wiesel, Elie, American writer
- Wise, Isaac Mayer, American rabbi
- Wise, Stephen Samuel, American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader
- Zunz, Leopold, German Jewish scholar
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