- Isaac Gastfreund
Isaac Gastfreund (born about 1845; died in Vienna after 1880) was a Galician rabbinical scholar.
He was the author of "Toledot Rabbi 'Aḳibah", a biography of the "tanna"
Akiba ben Joseph (Lemberg, 1871; see "Ha-Shaḥar," ii.399-400), and of the German work "Mohamed nach Talmud und Midrash" (issued in parts, Berlin, 1875; Vienna, 1877-80; see Sprenger in "Z.D.M.G." xxix.654-659).He also wrote in Hebrew a biography of the
Königswarter family entitled "Toledot Bet Königswarter" (Vienna, 1877); "Anshe Shem," biographies ofJonathan Eybeschütz andSolomon Munk (Lyck, 1879); and "Toledot Yellineḳ," a biography ofAdolph Jellinek (Brody, 1880).References
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Chaim David Lippe , "Bibliographisches Lexicon", i.129, 600, Vienna, 1881
*William Zeitlin , "Bibl. Post-Mendels.," p. 107;
*Moise Schwab , "Répertoire", Paris, 1900; ib. Supplement, 1903.External links
* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=82&letter=G Source]
References
*JewishEncyclopedia
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