Chaim Kittsee (Schlesinger)

"Directory and Genealogy of the Horowitz-Margareten Family- from Generation to Generation" revised Edition 1994. -Chart no. 22

died- 7.1850 ?

Rabbi Chaim Kittsee was a Hungarian Rabbi whose family name was originally Schlesinger. He was born in Alt-Ofen (Obuda) where his father was the head of the "Beth Din". He served as a Dayyan (judge) in Veszprem and from 1824 as Rabbi of Albertirsa, near Budapest. He took part in the rabbinical conference at Paks in 1844 and was among the signatories to the protest against the Brunswick Conference held in that year.

He was a great Talmudic scholar and left near 60 works in manuscript like “Ozar Hayyim”, “Orah Hayyim” and “Yoreh De'ah”. His name appears in the Encyclopaedia Judaica.

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