Joseph Lewinstein was a Russian rabbi

Rabbi

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 and author born at Lublin

Lublin

Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river...

, Russian Poland

Poland

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, 1840. He was a member of a family of rabbis and Talmud

Talmud

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ists which includes the author of Pene Yehoshua

Pene Yehoshua

Pene Yehoshua is the name of four different works of Rabbinic literature:*Homilies in the order of the parashas by Rabbi Yehoshua Falk ben Alexander HaCohen Katz, 1742*Responsa by Rabbi Yehoshua Heschel ben Yosef, 1715...

and the Lebushim

Mordecai Yoffe

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In 1860, at the age of twenty, became rabbi of Karol

Karol

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, in the government of Plotzk. In 1868, became rabbi of Zaklikov, in the government of Lublin and then in 1875 he was rabbi of Serotzk, government of Łomża.

Works

• Birkat Abraham: About the Talmudic tractates of Pesahim, Bezah, and Hagigah.
• Pene Abraham: Commentary on Genesis
• A commentary on the Haggadah of Passover
  Passover
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• Dor Dor we-Dorshaw: A collection of 6,600 names of the greats of Israel of all generations, with the dates of their deaths.
• Biographical articles of special genealogical value. They won him recognition as an authority in this field. These articles were published in Ha-Goren, Ha-Eshkol and to other periodicals.
• Appendixes to Ir Gibborim and Ir Tehillah.