Tictin

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Tiktin (derived from the city of the same name in eastern Poland or its Yiddish name Tiktin ) is the name of a rabbi family from Wroclaw, specifically the following people:

  • Abraham Tiktin (1764–1820), chief rabbi in Breslau
  • Gedalja Tiktin (1808–1886), royal rabbi in Silesia
  • Hariton Tiktin (1850–1936), German-Romanian Romance scholar, Romanianist, grammarian and lexicographer
  • Solomon Tiktin (1791–1843), Chief Rabbi of Breslau, an important opponent of reform