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Elimelech von Lyschansk
(1717–1786/87), Hasidic leader; founder of Hasidism in Galicia and Poland. The son of a wealthy village Jew in the district of Tykocin, Elimelekh was first drawn to Hasidism by his brother Meshulam Zusya (d. 1800), later…
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Samuel Edels
(1555–1631), rabbinical scholar and interpreter of the Talmud. Known as Maharsha—an acronym for “Our teacher, (the) Rabbi Shemu’el Edels (Adels)”—Edels was born in Kraków. He was a descendant of Yehudah Ḥasid on his fath…
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A. Y. Heshel Rizman
ha-Rav A.Y. Heshl Raizman; lives in Tel Aviv; son of Tsevi
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Yosef Yiśśakhar Ber ben Elḥanan
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