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This is a list of prominent rabbis, Rabbinic Judaism's spiritual and religious leaders.

See also: List of Jews.

Rabbinical eras
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Mishnaic period (ca. 70–200 CE)

AcharonimRishonimGeonimSavoraimAmoraimTannaimZugot
Rabbi Akiva

Talmudic period (ca. 200–500 CE)

Middle Ages (ca. 500–1500 CE)

Rashi
Maimonides
Nachmanides

16th–17th centuries

Joseph ben Ephraim Karo
Moses Isserles
Judah Loew ben Bezalel

18th century

Vilna Gaon
Shneur Zalman of Liadi

Orthodox rabbis

19th century

Netziv
Ben Ish Chai
Tzemach Tzedek

20th century

Religious-Zionist

Abraham Isaac Kook
Yehuda Amital
Shlomo Goren

Haredi

Alter of Slabodka
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Moshe Feinstein
Isser Zalman Meltzer

Modern Orthodox

Bernard Revel
Aharon Lichtenstein
Norman Lamm

Contemporary (ca. 21st century)

Religious-Zionist

Yisrael Meir Lau
Shlomo Amar
Avigdor Nebenzahl

Haredi

Ovadia Yosef
Yosef Shalom Elyashiv
Chaim Kanievsky
Dovid Twersky, Grand Rabbi of Skver
Yechezkel Roth of Karlsburg
Shlomo Miller

Modern Orthodox

Michael Rosensweig
Mordechai Willig
Jonathan Sacks

Conservative

Open Orthodox

19th century

20th century

Contemporary (ca. 21st century)

Union for Traditional Judaism

Reform

19th century

  • Samuel Adler (1809–1891), German-American rabbi of Temple Emanu-El
  • Moses Berlin (1852–1927), British Reform rabbi
  • Emil Hirsch (1851–1923), American Reform rabbi and scholar
  • David Einhorn (1809–1879), American Reform rabbi
  • Samuel Hirsch (1815–1889), German-American philosopher of the Reform Movement
  • Abraham Geiger (1810–1874), German Reform ideologist
  • Samuel Holdheim (1806–1860), German rabbi and founder of classic German Reform Judaism
  • Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy (1820–1890), Hungarian-English Reform rabbi in Eperies and Manchester, first Jewish professor in Cambridge
  • Leopold Zunz (1794–1886), German scholar, founded Science of Judaism school
  • Isaac Mayer Wise (1819–1900), American Reform rabbi

20th century

Contemporary (ca. 21st century)

Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl

Reconstructionists

20th century

Contemporary (ca. 21st century)

Other rabbis

See also

References

  1. ^ Hezser, Catherine (1997). The Social Structure of the Rabbinic Movement in Roman Palestine. Mohr Siebeck. pp. 64–. ISBN 978-3-16-146797-4. We suggest that the avoidance of the title "Rabbi" for pre-70 sages may have originated with the editors of the Mishnah. The editors attributed the title to some sages and not to others. The avoidance of the title for pre-70 sages may perhaps be seen as a deliberate program on the part of these editors who wanted to create the impression that the "rabbinic movement" began with R. Yochanan b. Zakkai and that the Yavnean "academy" was something new, a notion that is sometimes already implicitly or explicitly suggested by some of the traditions available to them. This notion is not diminished by the occasional claim to continuity with the past which was limited to individual teachers and institutions and served to legitimize rabbinic authority.
  2. ^ "YIVO | Gaster, Moses".
  3. ^ New York Times obituary, July 23, 1986.
  4. ^ "Black Rabbi Reaches Out to Mainstream of His Faith", Nikko Kopel, New York Times, March 16, 2008
  5. ^ "Home".
  6. ^ "About Us". www.sftpa.com. Retrieved Mar 9, 2022.

External links

Orthodox

  • List of leaders, Orthodox Union
  • Gallery of Our Great, chabad.org
  • Biographies of Gedolim, tzemachdovid.org
  • Mini-Biographies of Gedolim , chaburas.org
  • Cross-referenced Notes on Rishonim and Acharonim (PDF)

Conservative

  • Rabbinical Assembly

Reform

  • Central Conference of American Rabbis

Reconstructionist

  • Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association

Pan-denominational

  • Torah Commentator Biographies, kolel.org
  • List of Commentators, torahproductions.com
  • E-Lectures Glossary
  • RavSIG (Genealogy of Rabbinic families)