RAGOLER, ABRAHAM BEN SOLOMON:

By: Executive Committee of the Editorial Board., M. Seligsohn

Lithuanian Talmudist of the eighteenth century; born at Wilna; brother of Elijah b. Solomon (Elijah Wilna). Ragoler was preacher at Shklov and the author of "Ma'alot ha-Torah" (2d ed., Königsberg, 1851), a collection of Talmudic passages extolling the Torah and its students.

Bibliography:

Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 351, No. 1743;
Fürst, Bibl. Jud. iii. 516 (who calls him Abraham Wilna);
Walden, Shem ha-Gedolim he-Ḥadash, i. 15.

E. C. M. Sel.