Abraham Drabkin

Abraham Drabkin (born in Mogilev , Belarus in 1844 ; died in Saint Petersburg in 1917 ) was a Russian rabbi .

Born into an old and respected family, Drabkin received instruction in Torah , Talmud and Kabbalah from various Hasidic rabbis as a teenager . After studying at the yeshiva of Volozhin and the rabbinical seminary in Vilnius he was living in Russia Jews to the rabbinical seminary in from one society to promote culture Wroclaw sent. There Drabkin also dealt with philosophy and history. In 1875 he wrote his dissertation entitled Fragmenta Commentarii ad Pentateuchum Samaritano-arabicum . This was the first systematic halachic study on the Samaritans . From 1876 to 1908 he was Chief Rabbi ( Kazionny Ravin ) in Saint Petersburg. Drabkin was one of the first rabbis in the country to also preach in Russian. He was also a member of an association for the promotion of crafts and agriculture of the Jews of Russia. After the pogroms of 1881 he took part in various conferences dealing with the issue and became an important and well-known representative of Jewish interests. He was chosen to represent the Jews of Russia and was recognized by the Tsar for his achievements . Drabkin was the editor of the first eight volumes of the Yevreyskaya Entsiklopediya , an encyclopedia on the Jews of Russia. He also wrote a book on Russian legislation relating to Jews and published in Russian-Jewish magazines such as Vyestnik Russkikh Yevreyev and Razsvyet .

Web links

Wikisource: Авраам Нотович Драбкин - sources and full texts (Russian)

Individual evidence

↑ Iain Ruairidh, Mac Mhanainn BOID: Principles of the Samaritan Halacha . EJ Brill, Leiden 1989, ISBN 90-04-07479-1 , p. 6 ( limited preview in Google book search).
^ Encyclopaedia Judaica , Volume VI (Dr-Feu), 2nd ed., Thomson Gale, Detroit 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865934-3 , p. 5.
↑ Herman Rosenthal, Ignaz Drabkin: DRABKIN, ABRAHAM. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Volume 4, Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906, pp. 646-647 .

personal data
SURNAME	Drabkin, Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Drabkin, Avram; Drabkin, Avraam Notowitsch; Драбкин, Авраам Нотович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH	1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mogilev
DATE OF DEATH	1917
Place of death	St. Petersburg

[1] Iain Ruairidh, Mac Mhanainn BOID: Principles of the Samaritan Halacha . EJ Brill, Leiden 1989, ISBN 90-04-07479-1 , p. 6 ( limited preview in Google book search).

[2] Encyclopaedia Judaica , Volume VI (Dr-Feu), 2nd ed., Thomson Gale, Detroit 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865934-3 , p. 5.

[3] Herman Rosenthal, Ignaz Drabkin: DRABKIN, ABRAHAM. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Volume 4, Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906, pp. 646-647 .