Louis Ginzberg: Quick Facts


Facts

Born November 28, 1873 • Kaunas • Lithuania
Died November 11, 1953 (aged 79) • New York City • New York
Subjects Of Study Halakhah • Judaism • folklore

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Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi
Jewish scholar
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Mordecai Menahem Kaplan
American rabbi
Philo Judaeus
Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher
Bronze statue of Maimonides, depicted with a beard and wearing a turban, shown from the chest up against a clear blue background.
Moses Maimonides
Jewish philosopher, scholar, and physician
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Johanan ben Zakkai
Jewish scholar
Akiva ben Yosef
Akiva ben Yosef
Jewish sage and rabbinic founder
Rashi, from a French postage stamp.
Rashi
French religious scholar
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Judah ha-Nasi
Jewish scholar
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Gamaliel I
Jewish scholar
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Yom Ṭov Lipmann ben Nathan ha-Levi Heller
Bohemian rabbi and scholar
Lag BaOmer
Shimon bar Yochai
Jewish scholar
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Meïr
Jewish rabbi and scholar
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Jacob Israel Emden
Danish rabbi
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Adolf Jellinek
European Jewish rabbi and scholar
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Asher ben Jehiel
Spanish rabbi
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Moses ben Samuel ibn Tibbon
Jewish physician and translator
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Isaac ben Moses Of Vienna
European scholar
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Amram bar Sheshna
Jewish scholar
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Ashi
Babylonian-Jewish scholar
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Isaiah ben Judah Loeb Berlin
Hungarian scholar