Akiva Frankfurt Explained

Akiva Frankfurt
Death Place:Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
Occupation:Poet, rabbi
Language:Hebrew

Akiva ben Jacob Frankfurt (; died 1597), also known as Akiva ben Jacob Günzburg, was a German poet and rabbi.

He was the son of Jacob Flesch of Prague, and the son-in-law of Rabbi Simeon Günzburg of Frankfurt, with whose congregation he was associated as preacher, and by whose name he came to be known. His grandson was the scholar Abraham Flesch (–1640).

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