Judah Jeitteles

Judah Jeitteles, a Hebrew writer, poet, and advocate of the Haskalah, was the son of the prominent physician Jonas Jeitteles in Prague. Although Judah Jeitteles had a traditional Jewish education, he advocated for the abolition of heders and the integration of religious Jewish studies into the secular curriculum. Among his writings was a book on Aramaic grammar. He became a Jewish communal leader in Prague and also supervised the German-language Jewish school there. His Bene ha-ne’urim is largely a biography of his father, including a recounting of Jonas Jeitteles’s efforts in distributing Jenner’s smallpox vaccine. For the last eight years of his life, Jeitteles lived in Vienna.