Meshullam Egra

Egra was born in Buczacz, Galicia,^[1] but was living in Brody by the age of nine. At about that age he delivered a casuistic homily in the large synagogue of Brody, and had a discussion with its rabbi, Isaac Hurwitz, whose son-in-law he became. He was a contemporary of Sender Margoliouth [he], with whom he discussed ritual laws, and the master of Jacob Lissa. Egra was at first rabbi of Tusmenetz, later becoming rabbi of Presburg. He wrote She'elot u-Teshubot RaMA (Czernowitz, 1862), and an unpublished work on Maimonides.^[2]