Isaak Elchanan Spector

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Isaak Elchanan Spector

Isaak Elchanan Spektor (* 1817 in Ross [Рось; Polish Roś] near Grodno , Russia ; † March 6, 1896 in Kovno ) was a Russian rabbi and Talmudist . He founded a yeshiva in Kovno and supported the Chovevei Zion movement in Russia.

After the Chovevei Zion was publicly recognized, he decreed that the settlement of Palestine was a religious duty. Spektor was known and honored for his human interpretation of religious rules.

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  1. John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 765.