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
Bohemia
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n rabbi and scholar. He is also the maternal grandfather of
Joel Sirkis.
Born in
Hořovice
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Geography
Hořovice is located about southwest of Beroun and southwest ...
,
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
15th-century rabbis from Bohemia
Rabbis from Kraków
16th-century rabbis from Bohemia
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