Baruch Jeitteles

Originally a student of Rabbi Yechezkel Landau, Jeitteles travelled to Berlin and studied with Moses Mendelssohn, the foundational figure in the Jewish Enlightenment movement.

Jeitteles later returned to Prague and appeared to reconcile with Landau, and adhered to a moderate stance on Jewish Enlightenment issues.

Using inherited wealth from his father-in-law, Samuel Porges, Jeitteles established a private rabbinical school and training students from Moravia and Hungary.

During the War of the Sixth Coalition, and following the 1813 battles in Dresden and Kulm, Jeitteles persuaded local Jews to support a private hospital for the caring of wounded and ill soldiers.

[1] Jeitteles also wrote for Ha-Me’asef, a Jewish scholarly and literary periodical, during the 1780s and 1790s, and for a Jewish-German monthly published in Prague in 1802.