Commentators:R. Yaakov Mecklenburg (HaKetav VeHaKabbalah)/0

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R. Yaakov Mecklenburg
R. Yaakov Mecklenburg
Name
R. Yaakov Mecklenburg
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Background1

Life

  • Name – 
    • Hebrew name – ר' יעקב צבי בן גמליאל מקלנבורג
  • Dates – 1785-1865
  • Location – R. Mecklenburg spent much of his youth in Inowroclaw,2and lived in Gnesen, and Koenigsberg.
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  • Family – – His daughter married R. Baruch Gollub.
  • Teachers – R. Zecharyah Mendel b. R. David Tevele3
  • Contemporaries – R. Samuel David Luzzatto,4 R.Tzvi Hirsch Kalischer5
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