OPATOW, SAMUEL B. ELEAZAR:
Rabbi of Prossnitz, Moravia, in the sixteenth century; born in Bohemia. He was the author of "Ḥiddushe " (Prossnitz, 1602 or 1618), novellæ and responsa on the marriage laws of the treatises Ketubot and Ḳiddushin of the Babylonian Talmud.
Bibliography:
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. iii. 49;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 2424.