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Rabbi Benjamin Wolf Spira, of Posen

Hebrew: ר' זאב וולף מאוסטרופולי, of Posen
Also Known As: "Benyamin", "Wolf Spira", "Binyomin Wolff", "Ze'ev", "Zev", "Wolf", "Volf", "Vulf"
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Birthplace: Poznań, Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Death: October 12, 1630
Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic
Immediate Family:

Son of Yekhiel (I) Mikhel Spira and Wife of Jechiel Michel Jerusalem
Husband of Chawa Spira
Father of Rabbi David Chayim /Chaim /Chajim Wiener; Rabbi Aaron Shimon Spira Wedeles, Chief Rabbi of Prague and Bohemia; Bune Perlhefter; Gutrut Auerbach and Rachel Spira
Brother of Chaim Spira of Posen and Rabbi Menachem Man, of Brisk (Brześć Kujawski)

Occupation: Rabbi, Assessor of the Rabbinate of Prague for 30 years
Managed by: Randy Schoenberg
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About Rabbi Benjamin Wolf Spira

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~prohel/genealogy/names/loew/spira/s...

Assessor of the Rabbinate of Prague for 30 years and a known Kabbalist

Jewishencyclopedia: Benjamin Wolf Spira #5: Son of Jehiel Spira; died at Prague Oct. 12, 1630. He was for more than thirty years associate rabbi and director of a Talmudic academy in that city. Although universally respected his extraordinary modesty prevented him from accepting the chief rabbinate of Prague; but he took charge of it temporarily from 1629 until his death

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/soc.genealogy.medieval/...

"Die Grabschriften des alten Judenfriedhof in Wien" - Dr. Bernhard Wachstein, Band I pg. 404

About Rabbi Benjamin Wolf Spira (עברית)

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