Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport

Portrait by Antonín Machek
Unterschrift Salomo Juda Rapoport (1790-1867)
Unterschrift Salomo Juda Rapoport (1790-1867)
Title page of Rapoport's Erekh Millin

Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport (Hebrew: שלמה יהודה כהן רפאפורט; June 1, 1786 – October 15, 1867) 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"elomo "Y"ehuda "R"apoport. Shir literally means "song" in Hebrew. He was one of the founders of the new Wissenschaft des Judentums movement.


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