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    Schiffschul, officially Khal Adas Yisroel, was a former Orthodox congregation and synagogue, located at Grosse Schiffgasse 8, in the second district,...
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  • Jewish German composer Yiddish: Shul means synagogue Polnische Schul Schiffschul Synagoga Kopszer Szul w Dyneburgu Synagoga Altnaje Szul w Rydze Marta...
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    1931-1938 (as Landesrabbiner and Chief Rabbi of Eisenstadt) Synagogue Schiffschul, Vienna Yeshiva Etz Chaim (London) Yeshivas Mir (Jerusalem) Toras Shlomo...
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    פּרעסבורגער‎) is a leading Austrian haredi rabbi who heads the historic Schiffschul synagogue in Vienna's second district where a sizable Haredi Jewish community...
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    Austria-Hungary (today's Bratislava, Slovakia), was the cofounder of the Orthodox Schiffschul in Vienna; the family name alludes to the Franconian town of Pappenheim...
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  • Chasam Sofer) and Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Spitzer (1811–1893), Rabbi of Schiffschul, Vienna (author of Tikun Shlomo). In his adolescent years, Sofer learned...
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    architect was Henry Burck, whose design was supposedly based on that of the Schiffschul in Vienna. The carpentry was done by E. F. Hausen and the interior frescoes...
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  • Hungary ('The Oberland') to Vienna (headquartering itself in the renowned Schiffschul) and then on to Williamsburg under the leadership of Rabbi Yonasan Steif...
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