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Sefer sheelot ve-teshuvot bayt hadash ha-hadashot
Serkes (Sirkes; Syrkes; Syrkin) Joel ben Samuel (Szmuel) [Segal Jaffe1785
The Polish Museum in Rapperswil
Rapperswil, Switzerland
A volume of responses published in 1785 in Koretz in the printing house of Johann Anton Krüger. It contains plenty of valuable information about the history of the Jewish population in Poland and Lithuania in the 16th and 17th centuries. (The material was used and published by B. Katz in his book Le-korot ha-Jehudim be-Rusja u-Polin we-Lita ba-meot ha-szesz-esre we-ha-szwa-esre (Heb., [Contribution] to the History of Jews in Russia, Poland and Lithuania in the 16th and 17th centuries, ed. 1898).
The tomb of Sirkes lies in the cemetery near the Remuh Synagogue at the Szeroka Street in Krakow.
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- Title: Sefer sheelot ve-teshuvot bayt hadash ha-hadashot
- Creator: Serkes (Sirkes; Syrkes; Syrkin) Joel ben Samuel (Szmuel) [Segal Jaffe
- Date created: 1785
- Location created: Koretz
- Type: Book
- About the author: Serkes (Sirkes; Syrkes; Syrkin) Joel ben Samuel (Shmuel) [Segal Jaffe] called BACH (BaCh, an acronym formed from the initial letters of the title of his work: Bayit Chadash) (born 1561 in Lublin, died 1640 in Kraków). He was a Talmudist, rabbi, head of the Krakow yeshiva and rabbinical court, one of the greatest authorities of his time.
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