אליעזר ליפמן פיליפ פרינס

Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins (5595/1835–5675/1915) was a merchant and Torah scholar of Arnhem in the Netherlands, a son of Raphael Philip Liepman Prins and Mietje Prins. He was taught privately in his youth and continued his learning afterward in Amsterdam, while working for many years in the family carpet firm, which was well known in its day. Once he reached middle age he set aside the rest of his years for Jewish learning, pursued thoroughly and at length, and he corresponded with many of the scholars of his generation, sending she’elot to leading rabbanim and receiving their teshuvot. In 5617/1856 he married, in Amsterdam, Henriette Jacobson; in the 1880s he brought his family to Frankfurt, where he went on learning and writing on Torah subjects and general ones alike.

He brought to press the part of the Avudraham’s work that had never been edited, Tashlum Avudraham, for the Mekitzei Nirdamim society in 5660/1900, and wrote the introduction to the second edition of Michael Moravsky’s Seder Berachot. He left annotations on masechet Chullin and on the siddur, the latter printed in Otzar HaTefillot in 5675/1915, along with many articles in the Jewish weeklies and journals of his day. The notes he wrote in the margins of his own sefarim, together with his correspondence and an anthology of his writing in Dutch, were published in later years at the initiative of his granddaughter Els Bendheim. His library of six thousand volumes was brought to Yerushalayim and opened to the public in 5690/1930; it is kept to this day at the Lifshitz College of Education.