All About L’viv

Kohn was born in Bohemia to a desperately poor family that struggled to find the resources to send him to school. By all accounts, he was a brilliant young man who simultaneously studied Talmud and enrolled in the philosophical faculty of the famous Charles University in Prague. Early on, he was drawn to the Jewish Enlightenment, which called for Jews to integrate socially and politically with their host nations. (more…)

 Rabbi Abraham Kohn (born Jan. 1, 1807, Zaluzan, Bohemia; died at Lemberg, Galicia, Sept. 7, 1848) was a Reform Jew that was the Chief Rabbi of Lemberg, and was poisoned to death. (more…)