Joel Müller

Joel Müller (1827 – November 6, 1895) was a German rabbi and Talmudist, born in Ungarisch-Ostra, Moravia, and dying in Berlin.

[1] He received a thorough Talmudic training and succeeded his father as rabbi of his native town.

This he resigned to become professor of Talmud at the Berlin Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums.

[1] In 1878 Müller published in Vienna an edition of the "Masseket Soferim,"[2] and in the same year "Ḥilluf Minhagim";[3] the latter, which is a work of great value, first appeared in the Hebrew periodical "Ha-Shaḥar."

His "Teshubot Ḥakme Ẓarefat we-Lotir"[4] appeared in Vienna in 1881;[5] in 1886, "Briefe und Responsen aus der Vorgaonäischen Jüdischen Literatur"; in 1888, "Teshubot Geone Mizraḥ u-Ma'arab";[6] and in 1893, "Die Responsen des R. Meschullam, Sohn des R.