Baruch Jeitteles ( he, ברוך ייטלס) (22 April 1762 – 18 December 1813) was a Jewish scholar, writer, and doctor from

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, associated with the Jewish Enlightenment movement (''Haskalah''). His teachers were Rabbi

Yechezkel Landau Yechezkel ben Yehuda HaLevi Landau (8 October 1713 – 29 April 1793) was an influential authority in halakha (Jewish law). He is best known for the work ''Noda Biyhudah'' (נודע ביהודה), by which title he is also known. Biography Land ...

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and later

Moses Mendelssohn Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729 – 4 January 1786) was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion and identity were a central element in the development of the ''Haskalah'', or 'Je ...

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Baruch Jeitteles was born on 22 April 1762, in Prague. His father, , was a doctor. Originally a student of Rabbi Yechezkel Landau, Jeitteles travelled to Berlin and studied with Moses Mendelssohn, the foundational figure in the Jewish Enlightenment movement. Jeitteles later returned to Prague and appeared to reconcile with Landau, and adhered to a moderate stance on Jewish Enlightenment issues. Using inherited wealth from his father-in-law, Samuel Porges, Jeitteles established a private

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and training students from Moravia and Hungary. His son, , was a philosopher and co-founder of a Jewish weekly, "Siona". As a doctor, Jeitteles was a proponent of the smallpox vaccination. During the

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, and following the 1813 battles in Dresden and Kulm, Jeitteles persuaded local Jews to support a private hospital for the caring of wounded and ill soldiers. Jeitteles personally cared for the sick and soon died on 18 December 1813, in Prague.

Works

* ''Emek ha-bakha'' (1793) — an obituary in memory of Yechezkel Landau * ''Sefer Ha-Orev'' (Vienna, 1795) — a work attacking the radical wing of the Jewish Enlightenment movement * ''Sichah ben Shenat 5560 ve-5561'' (Prague, 1800) — a polemical work against the followers of Jacob Frank in Prague * ''Die Kuhpockenimpfung'' (Prague, 1804) — a sermon on behalf of his father's campaign for the smallpox vaccination Jeitteles also wrote for '' Ha-Me’asef'', a Jewish scholarly and literary periodical, during the 1780s and 1790s, and for a Jewish-German monthly published in Prague in 1802.

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