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EGER (1761–1837)  , Jewish scholar, was for the last twenty-five years of his life rabbi of Posen . He was a rigorous casuist of the old school, and his chief works were legal notes on the Talmud and the code of Qaro (q.v.) . He believed that religious education was enough, and thus opposed the party which favoured secular schools . He was a determined foe of the reform movement, which began to make itself felt in his time .