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Schepsel Schaffer (Yiddish: אבא שבתי (שעפּסעל) שײפֿער; May 4, 1862 – September 28, 1933) was an American rabbi.

Biography

Schepsel Schaffer was born on the first day of Shavuot, 5622, in Bausk, Courland. On his mother's side he was a descendant of Mordecai Jaffe, author of the Lebush. He was educated at the gymnasium of Libau, Courland, at the University of Berlin, and at the Rabbinical Seminary of Berlin.

In January 1893, Schaffer became rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in Baltimore, Maryland. He was president of the Baltimore Zion Association (from 1895) and honorary vice-president of the American Federation of Zionists, and he was twice a delegate to the Zionist Congress at Basel.

Publications

• Das Recht und seine Stellung zur Moral nach talmudischer Sitten- und Rechtslehre. Berlin: H. Itzkowski. 1889.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Adler, Cyrus; Dobsevage, I. George (1905). "Schaffer, Schepsel". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 92.

1. ^ Rev. Dr. Schepschel Schaffer: Twenty-Five Years of Activity in the Cause of Orthodox Judaism, 1893–1918. Baltimore: Kohn & Pollock. 1918.
2. ^  Adler, Cyrus; Dobsevage, I. George (1905). "Schaffer, Schepsel". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 92.

• 1862 births
• 1933 deaths
• 19th-century American rabbis
• 20th-century American rabbis
• American Zionists
• Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
• Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
• Jews from Maryland
• People from Bauska
• People from Courland Governorate
• Religious leaders from Baltimore