Schepsel Schaffer
Rev Dr. Schepsel Schaffer | |
|---|---|
| Personal life | |
| Born | May 4, 1862 |
| Died | September 28, 1933 (aged 71) |
| Buried | Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery |
| Spouse | Anna Lepidus |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Denomination | Orthodox Judaism |
| Jewish leader | |
| Position | Rabbi |
| Synagogue | Congregation Shearith Israel |
Schepsel Schaffer (Yiddish: אבא שבתי (שעפּסעל) שײפֿער; May 4, 1862 – September 28, 1933) was an American rabbi.
Biography
[edit]Schepsel Schaffer was born on the first day of Shavuot, 5622, in Bausk, Courland. On his mother's side he was a descendant of Mordecai Jaffe, author of the Lebush.[1] He was educated at the gymnasium of Libau, Courland, at the University of Berlin, and at the Rabbinical Seminary of Berlin.[2]
In January 1893, Schaffer became rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in Baltimore, Maryland. He was president of the Baltimore Zion Association (from 1895) and honorary vice-president of the American Federation of Zionists, and he was twice a delegate to the Zionist Congress at Basel.[1][2]
Publications
[edit]- Das Recht und seine Stellung zur Moral nach talmudischer Sitten- und Rechtslehre. Berlin: H. Itzkowski. 1889.
References
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Adler, Cyrus; Dobsevage, I. George (1905). "Schaffer, Schepsel". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 92.
- 1 2 Rev. Dr. Schepschel Schaffer: Twenty-Five Years of Activity in the Cause of Orthodox Judaism, 1893–1918. Baltimore: Kohn & Pollock. 1918.
- 1 2 Adler, Cyrus; Dobsevage, I. George (1905). "Schaffer, Schepsel". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 92.
- 1862 births
- 1933 deaths
- People from Bauska
- People from Courland Governorate
- Latvian Jews
- Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
- American people of Latvian-Jewish descent
- 19th-century American rabbis
- 20th-century American rabbis
- American Zionists
- Jews from Maryland
- Religious leaders from Baltimore
- Humboldt University of Berlin alumni