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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph B. Soloveitchik has received more than 376,778 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Joseph B. Soloveitchik is the 1,121st most popular philosopher (down from 1,079th in 2019), the 146th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 145th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Belarusian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Joseph B. Soloveitchik ranks 1,121 out of 1,267. Before him are Kaibara Ekken, Ivan Merz, Victor Basch, Luciano Floridi, Władysław Tatarkiewicz, and Walter Burley. After him are Michał Heller, Max Bense, Cornel West, Ion Dragoumis, George Gerbner, and André Comte-Sponville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Joseph B. Soloveitchik ranks 246. Before him are Süreyya Ağaoğlu, Preston Tucker, Olav Sunde, Julie Vlasto, Jaipal Singh Munda, and Humberto de Araújo Benevenuto. After him are Jean Tardieu, Willi Forst, Voldemar Väli, Nilo Murtinho Braga, Manuel Anatol, and Nathanael West. Among people deceased in 1993, Joseph B. Soloveitchik ranks 192. Before him are Rudolf Wetzer, Mirza Ibrahimov, James Donald, Štefan Uher, Anne Shirley, and Ivan Kozlovsky. After him are Jean Cau, Hans Werner Richter, Edivaldo Martins Fonseca, Mario Genta, Sven Thofelt, and John Hersey.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Joseph B. Soloveitchik ranks 146 out of 368. Before him are Sofya Yanovskaya (1896), Alexander Hleb (1981), Tadevuš Kandrusievič (1946), Walter Anderson (1885), Alexander Chervyakov (1892), and Lev Schnirelmann (1905). After him are Galina Lukashenko (1955), Sergei Sidorsky (1954), Sergey Ling (1937), Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov (1714), Boris Gelfand (1968), and Vasily Rudenkov (1931).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Belarus

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

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