Ezekiel Paneth
Born into a prominent family in Silesia, Ezekiel (Yehezkel) Paneth studied at the Leipnik yeshiva of Baruch Fränkl-Te’omim. Later, in Prague, he encountered pro-Haskalah rabbinic figures such as Judah (Yehudah) Leib Fischeles, the anti-Sabbatian Eleazer Fleckeles, and Baruch Jeitteles. As a result of the restrictions of the Familiants Laws, Paneth moved to Galicia, where he embraced Hasidism largely under the influence of Menachem Mendel of Rimanov. Ultimately Paneth moved to Hungary and from 1823 served as the chief rabbi of the principality of Transylvania, where he worked in rural conditions to serve a variety of Jewish cultures, including Sephardic; he also was on favorable terms with state figures.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
Primary Source
Sefer mar’eh Yeḥezkel (The Vision of Ezekiel)
Related Guide
Rabbinic Scholarship, 1750–1880
Despite the challenges of the early modern period, rabbinic scholarship flourished in Central and Eastern Europe in the latter half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century.