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.
E. C. A. Ki.
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