Yitzhak HaLevi ben Mordechai Raitzes

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Yitzhak HaLevi ben Mordechai Raitzes (circa 1730 Lviv– June 14, 1799 Krakow) was a Polish Rabbi.


[edit] Biographical information

Yitzhak HaLevi was born circa 1730[1] in Lviv[2] to Mordechai Halevi Raitzes the Rosh Mesivta in Lviv, who was the son of Yehoshua (Joshua) Raitzes (Reizes) who was martyred in Lviv on 13 May, 1728[3][4][2]. He married Sara Leah Lowenstamm, the daughter of Aryeh Leib ben Saul the Rabbi of Amsterdam, and the granddaughter of Tzvi Ashkenazi, the Chacham Tzvi. Halevi's first rabbinical position was Av Bais Din of Leshnev[5][2] a small town in the Brodivskyi Raion, Lviv Oblast in the Ukraine. From 1769 to 1778 he was the Av Bais Din of Chelm[2]. In 1778[2] (or 1776[6]) he became the Rabbi of Krakow, a position that he held till death on 14 June, 1799[2].

[edit] Descendants

One of his sons Mordechai Halevi was the Rabbi of Tykocin[2], while his other son Tzvi Hersch David Levin held the post as the Rabbi of Szczebrzeszyn[2] before moving to Krakow to help his father in the rabbinate of Krakow. From 1799 to 1816 he held the post of acting Rabbi of Krakow, and became the Rabbi of Krakow in 1816 (the Rabbi appointed in 1800 stayed in his position for a week before leaving for Warsaw, thus leaving Krakow without an official Rabbi until 1816[6]), a position held till his death on 18 December 1831[7][2].

[edit] References

  1. ^ The State Archive in Kraków /Archiwum Państwowe w Krakowie: "1790 Krakow Census", House: 53, Family: 1
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Haim Nathan Dembitzer (1888-1893). Klilat Yofi. Krakow, Poland: Y. Fisher, Vol. I, 132b, 135a and Vol II, page 79a. OCLC 122773481. 
  3. ^ Marcus, Jacob Rader (1999). "36", The Jew in the Medieval World: A Source Book, 315-1791. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 202 - 203. ISBN 087820217X. 
  4. ^ Bałaban, Majer (January 14, 1921). "Auto da Fe w Lwowie w r. 1728 (Auto da Fe in Lviv in 1728)" (in Polish). Chwila. Lviv, Ukraine: Chwila. OCLC 31028928. 
  5. ^ Salomon Buber (1895). Anshe Shem asher Shimshu Be'ir Lviv mi-1500-1890. Krakow, Poland: S Buber, 121-122. OCLC 61506167. 
  6. ^ a b Balaban, Majer (2002). "34", Toldot Hayehudim bi-Krakov uve-Kaz'imyez', 1304-1868. Jerusalem, Israel: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 808, 915. ISBN 9789654930840. 
  7. ^ The State Archive in Kraków /Archiwum Państwowe w Krakowie: "Jewish Civil Registry of Kraków", 1831, death(Akt)#422
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