Moshe Dovid Winternitz
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image
Moshe Dovid Winternitz (1855–1944) was the Head of the Beth din Rabbinical Court in Satmar, Hungary (now Satu Mare, Romania). This position was second to the Rabbi of the city. He is considered to be one of the greatest scholars of his time.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". People from around the globe would send him Halachic queries.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In the summer of 1944, he was deported with many of the other Jews of Satmar to the Auschwitz Death camp, where he perished.[1]
References
- ↑ Zekor Et Satmar, Bnei Brak 1984.