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SAMUEL JUDAH LOB RAPOPORT (1790-1867)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 909 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMUEL
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JUDAH LOB RAPOPORT (1790-1867)
  , Jewish scholar, was born at Lemberg in 1790 . After various experiences in business, Rapoport became successively
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rabbi of
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Tarnopol (1837) and of Prague (184o) . He was one of the founders of the new learning in Judaism . His chief
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work was the first
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part of an (unfinished)
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encyclopaedia (`Erekh Millin, 1852) . Equally notable were his
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biographies of the Gaon Saadiah, Nathan author of the Arnkh, the Gaon Hai, Eleazar Kalir and others . He died at Prague in 1867 . (I .

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