PHILOSOPHER

Joseph B. Soloveitchik

1903 - 1993

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Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (Hebrew: יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ׳יק Yosef Dov ha-Levi Soloveychik; February 27, 1903 – April 9, 1993) was a major American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, and modern Jewish philosopher. He was a scion of the Lithuanian Jewish Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty. As a rosh yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) at Yeshiva University in New York City, The Rav, as he was known, ordained close to 2,000 rabbis over the course of almost half a century. Some Rabbinic literature, such as sefer Shiurei HaGrid, refers to him as הגרי"ד, short for "The great Rabbi Yosef Dov". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph B. Soloveitchik is the 1,136th most popular philosopher (down from 1,121st in 2019), the 151st most popular biography from Belarus (down from 146th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Belarusian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Joseph B. Soloveitchik ranks 1,136 out of 1,267. Before him are Adolf Grünbaum, Pritilata Waddedar, Derek Prince, Allan Bloom, Ecphantus the Pythagorean, and Pierre Lévy. After him are Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, Aesara, Eino Kaila, Thomas van Erpe, Harry Frankfurt, and Ernest Belfort Bax.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Joseph B. Soloveitchik ranks 258. Before him are Georges de Rham, Lucien Michard, Alexander Bek, Peppino De Filippo, Jean Tardieu, and Koto Matsudaira. After him are Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston, Guillermo Saavedra, Vladimir Lossky, Lothar Bolz, Pierre Brossolette, and Igor Newerly. Among people deceased in 1993, Joseph B. Soloveitchik ranks 195. Before him are Rudolf Wetzer, Uğur Mumcu, Tahar Djaout, Alexander Mackendrick, Axel von dem Bussche, and Héctor De Bourgoing. After him are Kamal Hassan Ali, Pino Puglisi, Carlos Marcello, Anne Shirley, Hans Werner Richter, and Edivaldo Martins Fonseca.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Joseph B. Soloveitchik ranks 151 out of 368. Before him are Alaiza Pashkevich (1876), Boris Gelfand (1968), Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov (1714), Sergey Ling (1937), Natasha Zvereva (1971), and Anna Tumarkin (1875). After him are Vitaly Scherbo (1972), Nikolai Gorbachev (1948), Wilhelm Anderson (1880), Tadevuš Kandrusievič (1946), Thaddeus Bulgarin (1789), and Victoria Azarenka (1989).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Belarus

Among philosophers born in Belarus, Joseph B. Soloveitchik ranks 5. Before him are Salomon Maimon (1754), Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745), Kazimierz Łyszczyński (1634), and Anna Tumarkin (1875).

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