Halberstam, Isaac ben Ḥayyim
HALBERSTAM, ISAAC BEN ḤAYYIM
HALBERSTAM, ISAAC BEN ḤAYYIM (1810–1880), talmudist and author. Halberstam was born in Brody and belonged to a distinguished rabbinical family. He was a brother-in-law of Dov Berush *Meisels, rabbi in Cracow and Warsaw, in partnership with whom he directed a banking establishment in Cracow. After losing his fortune, Halberstam devoted himself exclusively to study. His novella to the Pentateuch, arranged in the order of the weekly portions, were published by his son, Solomon Zalman Ḥayyim, under the title Si'aḥ Yiẓḥak (1882).
bibliography:
I. Halberstam, Si'aḥ Yiẓḥak (1882), preface; Z. Horowitz, Kitvei ha-Ge'onim (1928), 90.
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