Rabbi Yaakov ben Binyamin Zak Ashkenazi, of Vilna

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Rabbi Yaakov ben Binyamin Zak Ashkenazi, of Vilna

Hebrew: רבי יעקב רבי יעקב ז ז"ק אשכנזי, מוילנה
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Birthplace: Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania
Death: circa 1692 (57-66)
Jerusalem, Palestine, Ottoman Empire
Place of Burial: Jerusalem, Israel
Immediate Family:

Son of Rabbi Binyamin Shimon Zeev Wolf Ashkenazi, [of Vilna] and wife, Benjamin Zev Wolf Ashkenazi
Husband of Yehudis Zak Ashkenazi and Nechama Ashkenazi
Father of Chacham Tzvi Hirsch Ashkenazi; Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Meshulam Ashkenazi; Benjamin Wolf Ofner and Rachel Emden
Brother of R' Samuel Eleazar Ashkenazi, of Ludmir; Dreizel Katzenellenbogen; Naftali Hirsch of Tzusmar and Pinczow and Esther Ashkenazy

Occupation: Rabbi
Managed by: Yigal Burstein
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About Rabbi Yaakov ben Binyamin Zak Ashkenazi, of Vilna

Was seen having his head cut off by massacres, wife refused to remarry feeling he was still alive even though witnesses testified they saw him being killed, and the Rabbi permitted her to remarry, she refused to even consider it, later he showed up, said he hid among the dead bodies making believe he was dead, till he escaped.

(Source: Megillat Sefer by Rabbi Yaakov Emden (His grandson)


Die Grabschriften des alten Judenfriedhofes in Eisenstadt- Dr. Bernhard Wachstein- page 78

About רבי יעקב רבי יעקב ז ז"ק אשכנזי, מוילנה (עברית)

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Rabbi Yaakov ben Binyamin Zak Ashkenazi, of Vilna's Timeline

1630
1630
Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania
1658
August 20, 1658
Velké Meziříčí, Moravia, Czechoslovakia
August 20, 1658
Velké Meziříčí, Moravia, Czechoslovakia
1661
1661
1692
1692
Age 62
Jerusalem, Palestine, Ottoman Empire
1692
Age 62
Jerusalem, Israel
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