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    Artist

  • Porges, Ignác Josef, 1812-1890, artist

    • Title

  • Portrait of Rabbi Salomon Leib Rapoport (known as Shir) 1790-1867

  • Physical Description

    1 print : lithograph ; 15.8" x 11.4" (41 cm. x 29 cm.)

  • Date

    1841

  • Notes

    After a painting dated 1841. Name of artist and date lower left. Name of lithographer lower right. Titled in Hebrew and German across bottom. Reproduction of Rapoport's signature, center.

  • Summary

    Sitting sideways in an armchair, the rabbi is pointing to a Bible opened to the Book of Job. Mention is also made of Moses J. Landau (1788-1852), publisher of Hebrew text's and leader of the community responsible for bringing Rapoport to Prague.

  • Depicted

    Rapoport, Solomon Judah Leib, 1790-1867, Portraits.

  • Subject

    Rabbis, Czech Republic, Prague, Portraits

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Lithographs; Prints

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Rabbi Salomon Leib Rapoport was born in Lemberg, Galicia (Lviv, Ukraine) on June 1st, 1790. He spent his life as a Jewish scholar, and rabbi. Rapoport became the rabbi of Tarnopol in 1837, and the chief rabbi of Prague in 1840. He was one of the founders of the movement “Wissenschaft des Judentums”, which was dedicated to the academic study of Jewish texts and their origins. Rapoport wrote the encyclopedia “Erekh Millin” on Hebrew vowel sounds and published numerous biographies. Shlomo Judah Rapoport (“Shir”) died in Prague on October 16, 1867.

Ignác Josef Porges was a portraitist born in Jevičko na Moravě and active in Prague.

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Citation

Porges, Ignác Josef: Portrait of Rabbi Salomon Leib Rapoport (known as Shir) 1790-1867, Leo Baeck Institute, 86.59.