Jacob Reinowitz
{{Short description|British rabbi}}
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Jacob Reinowitz (1818 – 17 May 1893), also known as Reb Yankele, was a British rabbi and dayan.
Biography
Jacob Reinowitz was born in 1818 in Wilkowisk, Poland (now Vilkaviškis, Lithuania), descended from a long line of rabbis and scholars.{{r|newman}}
He assumed the role of rabbi in his hometown at the age of twenty-eight and served in this capacity for thirty years. In 1876, he relocated to London, where he accepted the position of preacher at the Talmud Torah in Whitechapel.{{r|palgrave}} His erudition and dedication in the East End of London attracted the attention of Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler, leading to his appointment as a member of the London Beth Din.{{r|newman}}
Among Reinowitz's students were Simeon Singer, Hermann Adler, and Moses Hyamson.{{r|newman}}
In popular culture
Reinowitz is believed to have been the inspiration for the character "Reb Shemuel" in Israel Zangwill's work, Children of the Ghetto.{{cite news|title=Table Talk | newspaper=The Literary World | volume=47|location=London| date=May 26, 1893 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TQ_l7q81jcsC&pg=PA485| page=485}}
References
{{Jewish Encyclopedia|article=Reinowitz, Jacob (Reb Yankele)|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12666-reinowitz-jacob-reb-yankele|first1=Joseph|last1=Jacobs|first2=Goodman|last2=Lipkind|volume=10|page=368}}
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{{cite journal|title=The Responsa of Dayan Jacob Reinowitz, 1818–1893|first=Eugene|last=Newman|journal=Transactions & Miscellanies|publisher=Jewish Historical Society of England|volume=23|date=1969–1970|pages=22–33|jstor=29778783|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/29778783}}
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Category:19th-century British rabbis
Category:Emigrants from Congress Poland to the United Kingdom
Category:English Orthodox rabbis
Category:English people of Polish-Jewish descent