Lifrakim [essays on mussar, aggadah and contemporary issues]

WEINBERG, YECHIEL YA’AKOV

Kronenberg

Bilgoraj

1936

R. Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg (1884-1966) was the renowned rector of the Hildesheimer Seminary of Berlin and author of the multi-volumed responsa “Seridei Esh.” One of the very great Torah scholars of his generation, R. Weinberg survived the war and settled in Montreux, Switzerland in the summer of 1946 where he lived out the rest of his life. Despite many offers of prominent rabbinic positions across the globe, R. Weinberg chose not to leave Switzerland, where he penned many influential and important responsa. An exceptionally fine Hebrew writer and stylist, R. Weinberg included in this work many important essays on the personalities of the Mussar movement (R. Nathan Tzvi Finkel, the Alter of Slabodka), Religious Zionism (R. Yitzchak Yaacov Reines), other important Rabbis and memories of his youth in Kovno. Also included also are a number of eulogies on esteemed women of Lithuania. See M. B. Shapiro, Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy: The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg (1999) pp. 149-50.