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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