Aaron Samuel Kaidanover

Aaron Samuel ben Israel Kaidanover (1614 in Vilna – December 1, 1676, in Chmielnik) (Hebrew: אהרן שמואל קאידנוור) was a Polish-Lithuanian rabbi. Among his teachers were Jacob Hoeschel and his son Joshua Hoeschel.

Biography

During the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648–1649) the Cossacks plundered Kaidanover's possessions, his valuable library and his manuscripts among them, and killed his two little daughters, and he arrived in Moravia an impoverished fugitive. He was elected rabbi successively of Langenlois in Lower Austria, Nikolsburg, Glogau, Fürth, and Frankfurt am Main, and then returned to Poland, in 1671 to become the rabbi of Cracow[1] a position he held until his death on December 1, 1676, while attending the Vaad HaGalil of Krakow that took place in Chmielnik[1] (Michael; but Azulai and Horovitz give 1679; see bibliography).

Works

He wrote:

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 Haim Nathan Dembitzer (1888–1893). Klilat Yofi. Krakow, Poland: Y. Fisher. Vol. II, 71a. OCLC 122773481.
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