Rabbi Mordechai Jaffe, Ba׳al "Halevushim" (1530 Bohemia (but not Prague) – 2/26/1612 Poznań, Poland) was in Šternberk (Sternberg), Moravia, Czech in February 1560 and completed his book there. Yet he soon left for Prague from which he was expelled in 1561. *wikipedia
I am interested in knowing if Jaffe was forced to leave Šternberk (Sternberg) due to an expulsion?
ref-1 book: Connecting Histories: Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.9783/9780812296037-004/ht...: Chapter 3. A Sixteenth-Century Rabbi as a Published Author: The Early Editions of Rabbi Mordecai Jaffe’s Levushim, Francesca Bregoli, David B. Ruderman, Pavel Sládek *ref-2: https://dokumen.pub/connecting-histories-jews-and-their-others-in-e... (Text) *ref-3: https://dl1.cuni.cz/pluginfile.php/911617/mod_resource/content/1/SL...:
Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe: Studying with My Students: “I Will Diminish the Amount of Time I Spend Studying with My Students” Mordecai Jaffe was born around the year 1535 in Bohemia. It is assumed that he studied in Poland with Moses Isserles and with Solomon Luria. His teacher of kabbalah and the sciences was Mattathias Delacrut. After completing his studies, Jaffe return ed to Bohemia and served as a rabbi in Prague. During the years of uncertainty resulting from the second attempt of Emperor Ferdinand I to expel the Jews from the Bohemian lands (1557), Jaffe found refuge in the Moravian town of Sternberg8, but in 1561 he decided to leave for Italy and spent ten years in Venice. He returned to East Central Europe and held rabbinic positions in Grodno, Lublin, and in Kremenetz; he was one of the leaders of the Council of Four Lands. In 1592 he again moved to Prague to serve as chief rabbi, probably as a result of an arrangement between the Prague and Poznań communities, the latter having appointed the Maharal, politically unacceptable for the Prague elders, as their rabbi. The Maharal left for Poznań, and four years later he and Jaffe switched positions. Jaffe spent the rest of his life as chief rabbi of Poznań, remaining active until the last moment, as proved by a circular letter that he dictated two days before his demise on March 7, 1612.”...
Notes: …8. In the concluding note to his supercommentary to Recanati (Lublin 1594, 182a), Jaffe wrote: “I give praise to God who gave me the merit to complete my explanations of the book of Recanati ... today, on Friday, 5 Adar I, in the year of 320 here in Sternberg.” On the expulsion, see Helmut Teufel, “Zur politischen und sozialen Geschichte der Juden in Mähren vom Antritt der Habsburger bis zur Schlacht am Weißen Berg (1526–1620)” (diss., Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1971), 35–40; Samuel Steinhertz, “The Expulsion of the Jews from Bohemia in 1541” [Hebrew], Zion 15 (1950): 70–92. The instability is amply documented by the archival materials published in Gottlieb Bondy and Franz Dworský, eds., Zur Geschichte der Juden in Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien von 906 bis 1620 (Prague, 1906), 1:421–58, nos. 582–623.
