Isaiah ben Judah Loeb Berlin
Hungarian scholar
Also known as: Isaiah Pick
Isaiah ben Judah Loeb Berlin (born October 1725, Eisenstadt, Hungary [now in Austria]—died May 13, 1799, Breslau, Silesia, Prussia [now Wrocław, Pol.]) was a Jewish scholar noted for his textual commentaries on the Talmud and other writings. The son of a well-known Talmudic scholar, he moved to Berlin as a youth and was educated by his father and at the yeshiva of another eminent rabbi. Berlin became a member of the rabbinate late in life...