Isaac Gastfreund (about 1845 - after 1880, Vienna) was a Galician rabbinical scholar.
He was the author of Toledot Rabbi 'Aḳibah, a biography of the tanna Akiba ben Joseph (Lemberg, 1871; see Ha-Shaḥar, ii.399-400), and of the German work Mohamed nach Talmud und Midrash (issued in parts, Berlin, 1875; Vienna, 1877–80; see Sprenger in Z.D.M.G. xxix.654-659).
He also wrote in Hebrew a biography of the Königswarter family entitled Toledot Bet Königswarter (Vienna, 1877); Anshe Shem, biographies of Jonathan Eybeschütz and Solomon Munk (Lyck, 1879); and Toledot Yellineḳ, a biography of Adolph Jellinek (Brody, 1880).
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“Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.”
—Bible: Hebrew Jacob, in Genesis, 27:11.
To his mother Rebekah, explaining how the blind Isaac might discover the ploy of his pretending to be Esau. “Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.” (25:27)