Education
Born in Kovno, Lithuania, he studied at the Pressburg Yeshiva in his youth, as well as in Paris under Rabbi Zadoc Kahn, chief rabbi of France.
Born in Kovno, Lithuania, he studied at the Pressburg Yeshiva in his youth, as well as in Paris under Rabbi Zadoc Kahn, chief rabbi of France.
This article is about the rabbinical scholar. Rabbi Doctor Ezekiel Isidore Epstein (1894–1962), was an Orthodox rabbi and rabbinical scholar in England. He served as rabbi of Middlesbrough Hebrew Congregation (1920-1928), following which he joined the teaching staff of Jews" College, London.
In 1945 he was appointed Director of Studies and subsequently principal.
He retired in 1961. He received semikhah (ordination) from Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Rabbi Isaiah Silberstein of Vacz, and Rabbi Yisrael Chaim Daiches of Leeds, England. Epstein is best known for serving as the editor of the first complete English translation of the Babylonian Talmud, by the Soncino Press (London, 36 volumes, 1935-1952).
He recruited many rabbis and scholars for the massive project, personally reviewing all of the work as it was produced, and co-ordinating the many details of notation, and transliteration of Hebrew words.