Isidore Epstein

Isidore Epstein

Rabbi Dr. Isidore Epstein (1894-1962), was an Orthodox rabbi and rabbinical scholar in England, who served as the longtime principal of Jews' College, London.

Rabbi Epstein was born in Kovno, Lithuania. He studied at the Pressburg yeshiva in his youth, as well as in Paris under Rabbi Zadoc Kahn, chief rabbi of France. He received Semicha from the world-renowned Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Rabbi Yisrael Chaim Daiches of Leeds, England. Rabbi Epstein is best known for serving as the overall editor of the first complete English translation of the Babylonian Talmud, by the Soncino Press (London, 34 volumes). He recruited many Rabbis and scholars for the massive project, personally reviewing all of the work as it was produced, and co-ordinating the many details of notation, and transliteration of Hebrew words.

Rabbi Epstein was also editor of a collection of Anglo-Jewish papers (published 1935) in connection with the eighth centenary of the birth of the Rambam, as well as being the author of numerous scholarly book relating to Judaism.


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