Wednesday, 8 April 2015

AVROM BRODI (AVRAHAM BRODY)

AVROM BRODI (AVRAHAM BRODY) (1825-1882)
He was born in Uzahor, Hungary, the son of Shloyme-Zalmen Brodi.  He attended religious elementary school and the yeshiva of R. Moyshe Soyfer in Pressburg (Bratislava), and he received from him rabbinic ordination.  For a time he studied in Kleinwardein.  From 1876 until his death, he served as rabbi in the city of Březen, Hungary.  He authored the following religious texts: Kelalim behalakha (Principles in halakha), two parts (Ungvár, 1871); and Halikhot olam (Laws of the world), “all the necessary rulings of the Shulḥan arukh in Judeo-German,” five editions (first: Sighet, 1871; second: Budapest, 1881; fourth: Romania, 1927), 324 pp.

Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon fun der yidisher literatur un prese (Warsaw, 1914); Jekuthiel-Judah Greenwald, Peere ḥakhme medinatenu (The tiaras of the wise men of our land) (Sighet, 1911); Greenwald, Hayehudim beungarya (The Jews of Hungary) (Vac, 1913); Encyclopaedia Judaica, vol. 4 (Berlin, 1929).


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