Hungarian rabbi and author; died at Kolin, Bohemia, in 1805; grandson of Meïr Eisenstadt, author of "Panim Me'irot." Kallir, who was rabbi of Rechnitz and of Kolin, wrote: (1) "Or Ḥadash," in three parts:( a ) commentary on the Pentateuch which forms a part of his grandfather's work "Kotnot Or" (Fürth, 1766); ( b ) novellæ on Pesaḥim; and ( c ) novellæ on Ḳiddushin (Frankfort-on-the-Oder and Vienna, 1766-99); (2) "Ḥawwot Ya'ir Ḥadash" (Prague, 1792), sermons; (3) "Ḥeḳer Halakah," part i. (Vienna, 1838), responsa.
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