- Shapiro, Phinehas
- (fl. 18th cent)Polish Hasidic writer He lived in Koretz. A pupil of the Baal Shem Tov, he wrote Midrash Pinhas.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.
Shapiro, Phinehas
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