Hirschel Levin

Hirschel Levin

Rabbi Hirschel Ben Arye Löb Levin (also known as Hart Lyon in England) (born at Rzeszów, Poland 1721, died Berlin August 26, 1800) was a friend of Moses Mendelsohn and Chief Rabbi at London and Berlin and Rabbi of Halberstadt and Mannheim.

His father Aryeh Löb Lowenstam, known also as Saul LevinFact|date=June 2008 was rabbi at Amsterdam and his mother Miriam was daughter of Rabbi Chacham Zvi Ashkenazi.

His glosses on the Talmud appear in the Vilna edition under the name of Rabbi Tsvi Hersh Berlin.

His son, Rabbi Solomon Hirschell was also Chief Rabbi of the British German and Polish Jewish community, and the first of the British empire.

External links

* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=277&letter=L&search=Levin,%20Hirschel Jewish encyclopedia]
* [http://www.thorngent.eclipse.co.uk/roth/chnine.htm History of the Great Synagogue, Cecil Roth, Chapter IX: The Rabbinate of Hart Lyon, 1758-1764]


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