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Jacob Landau
ca. 1745–1822
Jacob (Ya‘akov) Landau was the oldest son of Ezekiel Landau and was a businessman in the city of Brody, where he was associated with the Haskalah movement.
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From the Introduction to His Father’s Book, Noda bi-Yehudah
I truly heard a mouth of holiness uttering these words, namely the holy and honored one of the Almighty, the most renowned, illustrious, saintly, and godly kabbalist, our teacher, R. ḥayim of Sanz of…
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European Rabbinic Scholarship
1750–1880
Despite the challenges of the early modern period, rabbinic scholarship flourished in Central and Eastern Europe in the latter half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century.