Waldenberg, Eliezer Judah
WALDENBERG, ELIEZER JUDAH
WALDENBERG, ELIEZER JUDAH (1912– ), rabbi. Born in Jerusalem, Rabbi Waldenberg is the author of the multivolume series of responsa entitled Ẓiẓ Eliezer dealing with actual problems of life in Israel and abroad and published several other books on questions of halakhah. From 1957 he was president of the District Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem. In 1976 he was awarded the Israel Prize for rabbinical scholarship.
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