- Moses Abigdor Lichtenstadt
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Moses Abigor Lichtenstadt (1787 - 1870) was a Hebraist and Talmud scholar from Lublin, Poland.
He was known for his great charity towards poor students, and helped found public schooling for Jewish children in Odessa. He wrote a number of articles on Biblical and Talmudic subjects for various publications, as well as Mi-Mochorat ha-Shabbat (Vienna, 1860) against the Karaites.
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- This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.
Categories:- 19th-century Polish people
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- Talmudists
- Polish Jews
- People from Lublin
- 1787 births
- 1870 deaths
- Polish expatriates in Ukraine
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