page_title: List of rabbis
section_title: Haredi
hierarchical_section_title: List of rabbis / Orthodox rabbis, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries / Orthodox rabbis: 20th century / Haredi
caption_attribution_description: Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, (1870 - 1953)
context_page_description: This is a list of prominent rabbis. Rabbis are Judaism's spiritual and religious leaders.
  See also: List of Jews.
context_section_description: Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky (1886–1976), author of Chazon Yehezkel
  Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira (1889–1984), Kabbalist
  Rabbi Amram Blau (1894–1974),  Haredi rabbi from the Hungarian community of Jerusalem and one of the founders of the fiercely anti-Zionist Neturei Karta
  Rabbi Shmuel Bornsztain (1855–1926), Shem Mishmuel, Second Sochatchover Rebbe
  Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (1892–1953), (Michtav Me'Eliyahu) religious philosopher and ethicist
  Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (1867–1948), also known as the Maharitz, was the first Rebbe of Dushinsky
  Rabbi Baruch Epstein (1860–1941), (Torah Temimah), Lithuanian Torah commentator
  Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein (1866–1933), ( Levush Mordechai), Talmudist and co-head of Slabodka yeshiva
  Rabbi Moshe Feinstein (1895–1986), (Igrot Moshe), Russian-American legal scholar and Talmudist
  Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Ferber (1879–1966), (Kerem HaTzvi), author, leader and renowned scholar
  Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel (1849–1927), (Alter / Sabba), early 20th-century founder of Slabodka yeshiva, Lithuania
  Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Friedman (1891–1971), Boyaner Rebbe of New York
  Rabbi Rogatchover Gaon (1858–1936), (Rav Yosef Rosen), Talmudist and Hasidic leader
  Rabbi Boruch Greenfeld (1872–1956), (Reb Boruch Hermenshtater), Hasidic mystic and scholar, author of Ohel Boruch
  Rabbi Yaakov Yehezkiya Greenwald (1882-1941), Rabbi in Pápa, Hungary, author of Vayageid Yaakov
  Rabbi Yosef Greenwald (1903-1984), (Pupa Rav) author of Vaychi Yosef
  Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan (1839–1933),  (Chofetz Chaim), Posek, and ethicist, compiler of classic works. Born and lived in Poland. Famous for writing the Mishnah Berurah, a work on Jewish Law.
  Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam (1874–1941), second Bobover Rebbe, killed by the Nazis in 1941
  Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner (1906–1980), (Pachad Yitzchok), European-born, American and Israeli rosh yeshiva
  Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky (1891–1986), rabbinical leader and educationalist
  Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky (1899–1985), ("Steipler Gaon"), Ukrainian-born scholar
  Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan (1934–1983), (Living Torah) writer and mystic
  Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz (1878–1953), (Chazon Ish) Haredi leader in Israel
  Rabbi Pinchas Kohn (1867–1941), last rabbi of Ansbach,  a founder and executive director of World Agudath Israel
  Rabbi Aharon Kotler (1891–1962), Lithuanian scholar, founder of Lakewood Yeshiva in the United States
  Rabbi Chaim Kreiswirth (1918–2001), long-time Chief Rabbi of Antwerp (Belgium)
  Rabbi Gershon Liebman (1905–1997), leader of the Novardok Yeshiva movement in France
  Rabbi Elyah Lopian(1876–1970), known as Reb Elyah, prominent in the Mussar Movement
  Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer (1870–1953), renowned Lithuanian Rosh Yeshiva
  Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz (1886–1948), (Mr. Mendlowitz) European-born head of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath in the United States
  Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (1843–1926), (Ohr Somayach ; Meshech Chochmah) Lithuanian-Latvian Talmudist and communal leader
  Rabbi Shulem Moshkovitz (?–1958), Hasidic rebbe in London
  Rabbi Yisroel Ber Odesser (1888–1994),  Breslover Hasid and Rabbi
  Rabbi Chanoch Dov Padwa (1908–2000), (Cheishev Ho'ephod), rabbinical head of UOHC, London
  Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto (1973–), Israeli Orthodox rabbi, leader of Mosdot Shuva Israel, a global organization, based in Ashdod and New York
  Rabbi David Rappoport (1890-1941), rosh yeshiva of the Baranovich Yeshiva
  Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Rosen (1899–1984), rabbi and leader of the Breslov Hasidim in Uman, Ukraine before World War II
  Rabbi Moshe Rosenstain (1881-1940), mashgiach ruchani of the Lomza Yeshiva in Poland
  Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994), Hasidic mystic and scholar, seventh Rebbe of Lubavitch
  Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn (1860–1920), fifth Rebbe of Lubavitch
  Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn (1880–1950), sixth Rebbe of Lubavitch
  Rabbi Joseph ben Yehuda Leib Shapotshnick (1882–1937), British rabbi
  Rabbi Simcha Sheps (1908-1998), rosh yeshiva of Torah Vodaath
  Rabbi Shimon Shkop (1860–1939), Rosh Yeshiva in Telz and Grodno
  Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld (1848–1932),  rabbi and co-founder of the Edah HaChareidis
caption: Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer
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