List of Polish rabbis

This is a list of Polish rabbis, who either lived in Poland or were born there.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Hassidism

The rise of Hasidic Judaism within Poland's borders and beyond has had a great influence on the rise of neo-Haredi Judaism all over the world, with a continuous influence that has been felt from the inception of the Hasidic movements and its dynasties by famous rebbes until the present time. The following are noteworthy:

• Aleksander Hasidism
• Belz Hasidism
• Bobov Hasidism
• Ger Hasidism
• Nadvorna Hasidism
• Sassov Hasidism

Polish Rabbis

Some famous Polish and Polish-born rabbis include:

• Avraham Mordechai Alter, 4th Gerer Rebbe (the Imrei Emes)
• Pinchas Menachem Alter, 7th Gerer Rebbe (the Pnei Menachem)
• Simcha Bunim Alter, 6th Gerer Rebbe (the Lev Simchah)
• Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, 3rd Gerer Rebbe (the Sfas Emes)
• Yaakov Aryeh Alter, 8th (and current) Gerer Rebbe ()
• Yitzchak Meir Alter, 1st Gerer Rebbe (the Chidushei HaRim)
• Baruch Ashlag ()
• Yehuda Ashlag ()
• Zvi Hirsch Chajes ()
• Avraham Danzig ()
• Elimelech of Lizhensk ()
• Joshua Falk ()
• Yaakov Gesundheit ()
• Avraham Gombiner ()
• Kalonymus Haberkasten ()
• Yitzchok Hutner ()
• Pinchas Menachem Justman (the Sifsei Tzadik)
• Yisrael Meir Lau (later Chief Rabbi of Israel)
• Menachem Mendel of Kotzk ()
• Shlomo Hakohen Rabinowicz, first Radomsker Rebbe ()
• Shlomo Chanoch Hakohen Rabinowicz, fourth Radomsker Rebbe ()
• Shalom Rokeach of Belz ()
• Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin ()

Rabbis philosophers born on Posen, West Prussia, etc

• Ismar Elbogen
• Abraham Joshua Heschel
• Samuel Holdheim
• Kaufmann Kohler
• Moritz Lazarus
• Hermann Tietz (rabbi)
• Joseph Case

See also List of German Jews;

Rabbis and philosophers born in Austrian Galicia

• Rabbi Jacob Avigdor
• Rabbi Salo Wittmayer Baron
• Salomon Buber
• Zwi Perez Chajes
• Rebbe Aharon Rokeach of Belz
• Rebbe Shalom Rokeach of Belz
• Rebbe Yissachar Dov Rokeach of Belz
• Friedrich Weinreb

See also List of Austrian Jews;

Rabbis philosophers born on Silesia, Brandenburg, Pomerania & Eastern Prussia

• See List of German Jews;

See also

• List of Polish Jews, List of North European Jews (Lithuania, etc), List of East European Jews (Southern Lithuania - Belarus), List of Ukrainian Jews (Ukraine - Galicia, Volhynia, et al.)
• List of Hasidic dynasties