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Avraham Yehoshua Heshel — Apter Rebbe / Rov Full name רבי אברהם יהושע העשיל Avraham Yehoshua Heshel Main work אוהב ישראל Oheiv Yisrael Born 1748 Żmigród Buried … Wikipedia
ZOREF, JOSHUA HESHEL BEN JOSEPH — (1633–1700), Shabbatean prophet; the most important figure of the Shabbatean movement in Lithuania. Born in Vilna, he was a silversmith with a modest Jewish education who early inclined to an ascetic way of life. During the persecutions in the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
BUCHMIL, JOSHUA HESHEL — (1869–1938), Zionist leader. He was born in Ostrog, Volhynia, and from 1896 to 1903 studied agriculture and law at the University of Montpellier (France), where he was a member of the Zionist student organization, Atidot Israel. In 1896 Herzl… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
LEWIN, JOSHUA HESHEL BEN ELIJAH ZE'EV HA-LEVI — (1818–1883), Lithuanian talmudist and author. Lewin was born in Vilna and studied under elijah ragoler . In his youth he was friendly with Mordecai Aaron Gunzberg, samuel joseph fuenn , and Julian Klaczko. In addition to his extensive talmudic… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Abraham Joshua Heshel of Apta (Apt (Opatav), Rabbi of) — (1745 1825) Polish Hasidic leader. He opposed the maskilim for spreading heretical ideas among Russian Jewry. He recounted fantastic reminis cences about what he had witnessed in former incarnations as high priest, king of Israel, nasi and… … Dictionary of Jewish Biography
Joshua Heshel ben Jacob of Lublin — (1595 1663) Polish rabbi. Born in Lublin, he succeeded his father as a rabbi of the community in 1650. Later he succeeded Yom Tov Lipmann Heller as rabbi of Krakow. Subsequently he moved to Vienna and sought to exert pressure on the government … Dictionary of Jewish Biography
Schorr, Joshua Heshel — (1818 95) Galician scholar, editor and leader of the Haskalah. He was born in Brody, and worked as a merchant there. In 1852 he established the periodical He Halutz, which he edited until 1887. In numerous articles he espoused religious and… … Dictionary of Jewish Biography
Apta (Hasidic dynasty) — Apt is the name of a Hasidic dynasty within Haredi Judaism. Its founder, Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heshel of Apt, popularly known as the Apter Rebbe or Apter Rov, was born in Zhmigrid, Poland in 1748 and died in Mezhbizh, Ukraine, Russian Empire in… … Wikipedia
Machnovka (Hasidic dynasty) — Machnovka (various spellings) is a Hasidic dynasty and part of the Chernobyl dynastic group of families. It takes its name from the village Makhnivke in the Ukraine, where its founder lived. Machnovka is an extant Hasidic group which survived the … Wikipedia
Medzhybizh — Not to be confused with Meziboří (Schönbach), near Most, a different city in the Czech Republic. Not to be confused with Międzybórz (Sycowski) (Neumittelwalde), the eponymous city in Silesia, now Poland. For other uses, see Międzybórz. Medzhybizh … Wikipedia
