List of Polish rabbis

List of Polish rabbis

The rise of Hasidic Judaism within Poland's borders and beyond has had a great influence on the rise of Haredi Judaism all over the world, with a continuous influence that has been felt from the inception of the Hasidic movements and its dynasties by famous rebbes until the present time. The following are noteworthy:

* Aleksander Hasidism
* Belz Hasidism
* Bobov Hasidism
* Ger Hasidism
* Nadvorna Hasidism
* Sassov Hasidism

Some famous Polish and Polish-born rabbis include:

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* Avraham Mordechai Alter ()
* Pinchas Menachem Alter ()
* Simchah Bunim Alter ()
* Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter ()
* Yaakov Aryeh Alter ()
* Yitzchak Meir Alter ()
* Baruch Ashlag ()
* Yehuda Ashlag ()
* Zvi Hirsch Chajes ()
* Avraham Danzig ()
* Elimelech of Lizhensk ()
* Joshua Falk ()
* Yaakov Gesundheit ()
* Avraham Gombiner ()
* Kalonymus Haberkasten ()
* Yitzchok Hutner ()
* Yisrael Meir Lau (later Chief rabbi of Israel)
* Menachem Mendel of Kotzk ()
* Shalom Rokeach of Belz ()
* Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin ()

Rabbis philosophers born on Posen, West Prussia, etc

* Ismar Elbogen
* Abraham Joshua Heschel
* Samuel Holdheim
* Kaufmann Kohler
* Moritz Lazarus
* Hermann Tietz (rabbi)
* Case (rabbi)

:" See also List of German Jews";

Rabbis and philosophers born on Austrian Galicia

* Rabbi Jacob Avigdor
* Rabbi Salo Baron
* Buber pedigree
* Zwi Perez Chajes/Zvi Perez Chajes
* Rebbe Aharon Rokeach of Belz
* Rebbe Shalom Rokeach of Belz
* Rebbe Yissachar Dov Rokeach (I) of Belz
* Provencal origin Schor and derivated - Wolowski (Chrisian), Wohl, Brodski, Margoliouth, Twiaschor (Chrisian) - rabbis and scholars of pedigree
* Friedrich Weinreb

:" See also List of Austrian Jews";

Rabbis philosophers born on Silesia, Brandenburg, Pomerania & Eastern Prussia

* See "List of German Jews";

See also

* List of Polish Jews, "List of North European Jews (Lithuania, etc), List of East European Jews (Southern Lithuania - Belarus), List of Ukrainian Jews (Ukraine - Galicia, Volhynia, et.al.)"
* List of Hasidic dynasties


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