Abraham Judah ha-Kohen Schwartz

Abraham Judah ha-Kohen Schwartz
Position Rabbi of Beregszasz
Yeshiva Pressburg Yeshiva
Began 1861
Ended 1881
Other Rabbi of Mad (1881–1883)
Personal details
Born 26 July 1824
Mad, Slovakia
Died 25 October 1883 (age 59)
Father Pinchas Zelig Schwartz
Mother Hendel Rivka Schwartz
Spouse Faige Gintzler[1]
Children Naftali Schwartz (son)

Abraham Judah ha-Kohen Schwartz (1824–1883), also known by his responsa as the Kol Aryeh, was one of the leading Hungarian rabbis of the nineteenth century.

He was a student of Moses Sofer and Benjamin Wolf Low. From 1861 to 1881 he served as the Rabbi of Beregszasz, Hungary and then until 1883 in his native town of Mad. He was an active participant in the rabbinical gathering in Nagymihaly in 1866 and at the congress held in Budapest in 1869.[2]

Although Rabbi Schwartz studied in the Pressburg Yeshiva whose leaders were opposed to Hasidism, he became deeply attached to Hasidism after a visit he made to Chaim Halberstam, the founder of the Sanz hasidic dynasty.[2]

His son Naftali Schwartz (1843–1896) succeeded him as rav of Mad. Schwartz wrote only one work titled Kol Aryeh, but its influence on the rabbis of Hungary was great. One of his great-grandchildren, Dov Ber Spitzer (son-in-law of Chaim Zvi Ehrenreich (1875-1936), Rabbi of Mad from 1932-1936), wrote his biography, published under the title Toldos Kol Aryeh (1940). See also "Hakol Aryeh", circa 2004.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Avraham Yehudah Schwartz (1824 - 1883) - Genealogy". geni_family_tree.
  2. 1 2 3 "Schwartz, Abraham Judah Ha-Kohen".
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gotthard Deutsch (1901–1906). "Benjamin Wolf Löw". In Singer, Isidore; et al. Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company.
  • Hebrew biography


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