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Eliezer Berkovits (8 September 1908, Nagyvarad – 20 August 1992), was a rabbi, theologian, and educator in the tradition of Orthodox Judaism.

Life

Berkovits received his rabbinical training first under Rabbi Akiva Glasner, son of Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glasner, the Dor Revi'i, including semicha, and then at the Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin as a disciple of Rabbi Yechiel Weinberg, the great master of Jewish law in that generation, and received his Ph.D.

in philosophy from the University of Berlin. He served in the rabbinate in Berlin (1934–39), in Leeds, England (1940–46), in Sydney, Australia (1946–50), and in Boston (1950–58).

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In 1958 he became chairman of the department of Jewish philosophy of the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago. At the age of 67, he and his family immigrated to Israel in 1976 where he taught and lectured until his death in 1992.

Berkovits wrote 19 books in English, Hebrew, and German, and lectured ext