Entry by Rabbi Louis Jacobs in the Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture: from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Blackwell Publishing: 1990), 241-2. Repr. in EMJC, vol. 1, 280-1. [Bibliography updated.] Frankel, Zecharias (1801-1875) Rabbi, historian of the Talmudic period and theologian. Born in Prague, Frankel studied Talmud under Rabbi Bezalel Ronsberg and philosophy, natural…