{{Short description|British rabbi}} {{Infobox Jewish leader | honorific-prefix= | name=Jacob Reinowitz | title= | image= | caption= | synagogue= | synagogueposition= | yeshiva= | yeshivaposition= | organisation=London Beth Din | organisationposition=Dayan | began= | ended= | main_work= | predecessor= | successor= <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name= | birth_date=1818 | birth_place=Wilkowisk, Congress Poland | death_date={{death date and age|1893|05|17|1818|df=y}} | death_place=London, England | yahrtzeit= | buried= | burial_place=West Ham Jewish Cemetery{{r|newman}} | denomination= | father= | spouse=Esther Liba Binion{{r|newman}} | children= | occupation= | alma_mater= | semicha= | signature= }} '''Jacob Reinowitz''' (1818 – 17 May 1893), also known as '''Reb Yankele''', was a British rabbi and dayan.
==Biography== Jacob Reinowitz was born in 1818 in Wilkowisk, Poland (now Vilkaviškis, Lithuania), descended from a long line of rabbis and scholars.{{r|newman}}
He assumed the role of rabbi in his hometown at the age of twenty-eight and served in this capacity for thirty years. In 1876, he relocated to London, where he accepted the position of preacher at the Talmud Torah in Whitechapel.{{r|palgrave}} His erudition and dedication in the East End of London attracted the attention of Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler, leading to his appointment as a member of the London Beth Din.{{r|newman}}
Among Reinowitz's students were Simeon Singer, Hermann Adler, and Moses Hyamson.{{r|newman}}
==In popular culture== Reinowitz is believed to have been the inspiration for the character "Reb Shemuel" in Israel Zangwill's work, ''Children of the Ghetto''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Table Talk | newspaper=The Literary World | volume=47|location=London| date=May 26, 1893 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TQ_l7q81jcsC&pg=PA485| page=485}}</ref>
==References== {{Jewish Encyclopedia|article=Reinowitz, Jacob (Reb Yankele)|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12666-reinowitz-jacob-reb-yankele|first1=Joseph|last1=Jacobs|first2=Goodman|last2=Lipkind|volume=10|page=368}} {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=palgrave>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Reinowitz, Jacob|page=796|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hJc8afOZV0QC&pg=PA796|editor1-last=Rubinstein|editor1-first=William D.|editor1-link=William Rubinstein|editor2-last=Jolles|editor2-first=Michael A.|editor3-last=Rubinstein|editor3-first=Hillary L.| encyclopedia=The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=London|year=2011|isbn=978-0-230-30466-6|oclc=793104984}}</ref> <ref name=newman>{{cite journal|title=The Responsa of Dayan Jacob Reinowitz, 1818–1893|first=Eugene|last=Newman|journal=Transactions & Miscellanies|publisher=Jewish Historical Society of England|volume=23|date=1969–1970|pages=22–33|jstor=29778783|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/29778783}}</ref> }}
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