Moses ben Eliezer Jaffe II of Kraków (
Hebrew
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: משה בן אליעזר יפה השני מקראקוב; died 1520) was a 15th and 16th century
Bohemian rabbi and scholar. He is also the maternal grandfather of
Joel Sirkis
Joel ben Samuel Sirkis (Hebrew: רבי יואל בן שמואל סירקיש; born 1561 - March 14, 1640) also known as the Bach (an abbreviation of his magnum opus BAyit CHadash), was a prominent Ashkenazi posek and halakhist, who lived in cent ...
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Born in
Hořovice
Hořovice (; german: Horschowitz, Horvitz, Horowitz) is a town in Beroun District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 6,900 inhabitants.
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Kingdom of Bohemia
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in the late 15th century, his father Eliezer ben Abraham Jaffe was a rabbi in Hořovice and was the son of
Abraham Jaffe of Bohemia. In his early years, Moses learnt under his father, later moving to
Kraków
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Poland
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where he served as the city's rabbi. He later died in 1520 in Kraków.
References
1520 deaths
Year of birth unknown
People from Hořovice
Rabbis
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