Berlin, Naphtali Zevi Judah

Berlin, Naphtali Zevi Judah

▪ Jewish scholar
also called  (by acronym) Ha-neziv  
born 1817, Mir, Russia
died Aug. 10, 1893, Warsaw, Pol.

      Jewish scholar who developed the yeshiva (a school of advanced Jewish learning) at Volozhin, in Russia, into a spiritual centre for Russian Jewry and thus helped keep alive the rationalist traditions of the great 18th-century Jewish scholar Elijah ben Solomon. He was one of the first rabbis to join the Zionist (Zionism) movement.

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