Samuel Jacob Rabinowitz

{{Short description|Lithuanian rabbi, writer, and Zionist leader}}

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Samuel Jacob Rabinowitz ({{Langx|yi|שמואל יעקב בן שמעון מאיר ראבינאוויץ}}; 1857–1921) was a Lithuanian rabbi, writer, and Zionist leader. He has been described as the "greatest spokesman of religious Zionism before Reines."{{r|salmon}}

Rabinowitz was born in Kelme, Kovno Governorate, in 1857. He became rabbi at Ivye in 1887, and was called in the same year to Aleksot. He was an early member of Ḥovevei Zion,{{r|sopotkin}} and was a delegate to the Second Zionist Congress at Basel.{{r|EJ}} He became rabbi of Sopotkin in 1900, and of Liverpool in 1906.{{r|EJ}}

Work

Rabinowitz contributed a number of articles to Ha-Melitz, which later were published under the title Ha-Dat veha-Le'ummiyyut (Warsaw, 1900). A collection of his responsa and novellae were published as Sefer Oraḥ Yashar in Vilna in 1903.{{r|EJ}}

=Selected publications=

{{cite book|title=Ha-Dat veha-Le'ummiyyut|trans-title=Religion and Nationalism|location=Warsaw|date=1900|url=https://hebrewbooks.org/43860}}
{{cite book|title=Sefer Oraḥ Yashar|location=Vilna|date=1903}}
{{cite book|title=Li-Tekufot ha-Yamim|trans-title=The Cycle of Seasons|date=1918}}
{{cite book|title=Sefer Yashresh Ya'akov|date=1925|location=Liverpool|publisher=Rabbi S. J. Rabinowitz Memorial Publication Fund|url=https://hebrewbooks.org/38768}}

References

{{Archival records|title=Papers of Rabbi Samuel Jacob Rabinowitz|location=University of Southampton Special Collections|description_URL=https://www.yerusha-search.eu/viewer/metadata/UOS-0155/1/}}

{{Jewish Encyclopedia|article=Rabinovitz, Samuel Jacob|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12511-rabinovitz-samuel-jacob|first1=Herman|last1=Rosenthal|first2=Benzion|last2=Eisenstadt|volume=10|page=302}}

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{{cite EJ|title=Rabinowitz, Samuel Jacob|first=Godfrey Edmond|last=Silverman|volume= |page= |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/rabinowitz-samuel-jacob}}

{{cite book|first=Yosef|last=Salmon|chapter=Tradition and Nationalism | editor-last=Reinharz | editor-first=Jehuda | editor-last2=Shapira | editor-first2=Anita | title=Essential Papers on Zionism | publisher=New York University Press|location=New York | year=1996 | isbn=978-0-8147-7449-6 | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AvU8DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA108| page=108}}

{{cite book|title=Sopotkin: In Memory of the Jewish Community|editor-first=Alexander|editor-last=Manor|date=1960|location=Tel Aviv|pages=41–48|translator-first=Alfred Neil|translator-last=Kramer|url=https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/sopotskin/Sop037.html|via=JewishGen}}

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Category:1857 births

Category:1921 deaths

Category:19th-century Lithuanian rabbis

Category:20th-century Lithuanian rabbis

Category:British Zionists

Category:Clergy from Liverpool

Category:Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United Kingdom

Category:English people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent

Category:Lithuanian Zionists

Category:People from Kovno Governorate

Category:Religious Zionists