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David Tevele Schiff
David Tevele Schiff
1735 CE–1791 CE · Acharonim · Vienna
Rabbi David Tevele Schiff (died 1791) was an Ashkenazi rabbinic authority who served as rabbi of the Great Synagogue in London, a position that grew into recognition as Chief Rabbi of Britain's Ashkenazi communities. Born into a learned Frankfurt am Main family, he studied under Rabbi Jacob Joshua Falk, author of the Talmudic commentary Pnei Yehoshua. Before crossing to England he filled a succession of continental posts—preacher (maggid) in Vienna, head of the study house in Worms, and rabbinical judge (dayan) in Frankfurt—until his appointment to London in 1765. Over the following years the surrounding congregations came to accept his authority, consolidating the office. His Talmudic novellae and responsa were gathered after his death in the volume Leshon Zahav, arranged by his family and printed in Offenbach in 1822. Among his students was Rabbi Nathan Adler of Frankfurt.
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Stop 1 of 41755–1760Rabbinate
ViennaוינהAustria
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Vienna, on the Danube, is the capital of Austria. It grew from the Roman legionary camp of Vindobona, begun around 97 CE, and became the residence of the Habsburg emperors; Ottoman armies besieged it in 1529 and 1683 without taking it. Its university, founded in 1365, is often called the oldest in the German-speaking world, St. Stephen's Cathedral is its principal church, and Sigmund Freud founded psychoanalysis here. Jews are recorded from the 1190s; in the 13th century Isaac ben Moses, author of Or Zarua, headed its rabbinical court and yeshiva. The community was destroyed in 1420-21 and expelled in 1670, then grew to about 200,000 by the 1920s; some 65,000 Viennese Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.
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