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German-American-Israeli rabbi and scholar

Eliezer Berkovits (8 September , Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary &#; 20 August , Jerusalem) was a rabbi, theologian, and educator in the tradition of Orthodox Judaism.

Life

Berkovits received his rabbinical training first under Rabbi Akiva Glasner, son of Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glasner, the Dor Revi'i, including semicha,^[1] and then at the Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin as a disciple of Rabbi Yechiel Weinberg, a great master of Jewish law, and received his Ph.D.

in philosophy from the University of Berlin. He served in the rabbinate in Berlin (–), in Leeds, England (–), in Sydney, Australia (–50), and in Boston (–). In he became chairman of the department of Jewish philosophy of the Hebrew Theological College in Skokie.^[2] At the age of 67, he and his family immigrated to Israel in where he taught and lectured until his death in

Berkovits wrote 19 books in English, Hebrew, and German, a