Samuel David Luzzatto
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Samuel David Luzzatto, also known by the Hebrew acronym Shadal, was an Italian-Austrian Jewish scholar, poet, and a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement.
Luzzatto, from an 1865 engraving.
Luzzatto's family tree.
Portrait of Luzzatto, unknown date.
Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport
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Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport was a Galician and Czech rabbi and Jewish scholar. Rapoport was known by an acronym "Shir", שי״ר occasionally שיל״ר, formed by the initial letters of his Hebrew name "Sh"el
Samuel David Luzzatto
…a heretical position. Difference of opinion on this point was one of the causes why Luzzatto, after having maintained a friendly correspondence with Rapoport, turned against the latter. Another reason for the interruption of his relations with the chief rabbi of Prague was that Luzzatto, though otherwise on…
Portrait by Antonín Machek
Title page of Rapoport's Erekh Millin