Avraham Steinberg

Rabbi Professor Avraham Steinberg MD (Hebrew אברהם שטינברג; born 25 August 1947) is a medical ethicist, pediatric neurologist, rabbi and editor of Talmudic literature.

Professor Steinberg is Director of the Medical Ethics Unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, and co-chairman of the Israeli National Council on Bioethics. In 1999 he won the Israel Prize for original Rabbinic literature for his 7-volume Encyclopedia Hilchatit Refuit in Hebrew - the most comprehensive text book ever compiled on this subject. It was translated into English by Professor Fred Rosner as the Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics.

Steinberg is Director of the Torah literature publishing group Yad HaRav Herzog, head of the Editorial Board of the Talmudic Encyclopedia (or Encyclopedia Talmudit) and Editor-in-Chief of the Talmudic Micropedia.

Steinberg was born in 1947 in the Displaced Persons Camp in Hof an der Saale, Germany, to Gittel Gleicher and Rabbi Moshe HaLevi Steinberg, formerly Rabbi of Przemyślany, Galicia. He immigrated with his parents as an infant to Israel in 1949. His father served as the Rabbi of Kiryat Yam, and he spent a lot of time teaching his son Torah. After graduating high school, Steinberg studied at the Rabbinic Academy Yeshivat Mercaz Harav Kook in Jerusalem.

Steinberg studied medicine at the Medical School of the Hebrew University-Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem and graduated in 1972. He trained in Pediatrics at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, and in Pediatric Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Montefiore Hospital Medical Center, Bronx, New York. He served in the Israeli military as a medical officer in the Air Force, reaching the rank of Major.

Professor Steinberg worked as a senior Pediatric Neurologist at Shaare Zedek and Bikkur Cholim Hospitals in Jerusalem and he taught Medical Ethics at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School.

Steinberg was the first director of the Dr. Falk Schlesinger Institute for Medico-Halakhic Research at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, and the founder and first editor of their quarterly journal "Assia" - A Journal of Jewish Ethics and Halacha, devoted to issues in Jewish medical ethics.

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