Rabbi Yoel Singer, of Cracow

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NOTE: Jacobi: p. 103 15.1m V2: says the wife of Rabbi Yoel Singer, of Cracow was NN Shrentzel bat Eleasar Shrentzel (does not have a GENI profile at present) who was also the mother of Chana Falka Herzkus. According to Jacobi, this same NN Shrentzel had been married to, then divorced from Rabbi Mordechai Gershon Katz, and brought her children from the Katz marriage into the Singer house (Yosef HaCohen Katz, She'erit Yosef being one of those children). The Jacobi interpretation makes ample sense considering that Shaarit Yosef called Rabbi Yoel Singer, of Cracow his 'step-father' in that book: this would be because his mother re-married to Yoel Singer, making him his step-father. The same section goes on to say that after the divorce, Mordechai Gerson Katz re-married to a daughter of Yitzach Klauber (who on GENI is given the name Falka (Walka) Katz). This Walka Klauber becomes the step-mother of Shaarit Yosef and she has a sister wife, Yechiel ben Avraham Luria who becomes the mother of Rabbi Shlomo Luria, MaHaRSHaL. The one remaining piece in this part of the puzzle is why did Shaarit Yosef call Moshe ben Abraham Jaffe his "uncle"? The options are: 1) because Moshe was the brother of Shaarit's father (which we know to be impossible since one was from the Yoffe House and the other from the Katz house), 2) because Moshe's spouse is the sister of Shaarit's mother (who as just discussed was an NN Shrentzel, meaning that Moshe's spouse is another NN Shrentzel, or more complicatedly, that Moshe's mother's mother has another marriage that produced the spouse of Moshe (this would be if the words used by Wunder ('from her mother' are a) the words used by Shaarit Yosef, and b) mean that there was a different father from the one who produced Shaarit's mother), or 3) because Moshe's spouse is the sister of Shaarit's father (this would mean Moshe's spouse is a daughter of Rabbi Chaim HaCohen Katz). In the Wunder mini-biography of Shaarit, he says (and i hope I am getting the translation correctly): Shaarit called Moshe uncle 'because his mother had a younger sister from her mother who married Rabbi Moshe Yaffe.' If this is a factual statement (that is it came from the mouth of Shaarit in the book), then it would mean (2) is the correct choice. However, the Wunder statement could also be Wnder's interpretation of the meaning of Shaarit's use of 'uncle'. Until someone can show me the passage in Shaarit Yosef where the author states that the spouse of Moshe Yoffe was a younger sister of his (Shaarit's) mother, then I will remain on the fence regarding (2) or (3). A side note here is that I see no primary evidence offered by Jacobi for the proposition that 'Sarah Katz' (or any other Katz) was the sister of Mordechai Gerson Katz as proposed in (3), or that Sarah or any other Katz was the spouse of Shmuel Yoffe and hence the mother of the BACH as stated by Jacobi on p. 437, 16.1m. Vol2 (in the Jaffe chapter). The only reference given by Jaocbi is: "Schochat 18" which I take to mean the book by A. Schochet called (Am Hilufi Tukufot: Jerusalem 1960), which I have not reviewed, but seems to be referring to another fact mentioned in 16.1m of page 437, and not the Sarah-Katz-is-the-mother of BACH allegation. Jacobi seems to be relying solely on the following logic: since the Katz family had a printing press, and the Yoffe family made its name in calligraphy, then the union of the two families through Sarah Katz and Shmuel Yoffe would bring together two book-making families. However, I do not believe Moshe Gershon Katz was from the printing family (instead it was Mordechai Katz from the Gershuni Family). Suffice it to say that I am discarding the view proposed by Jacobi unless I see some harder evidence. That said, as just mentioned earlier, it remains a remote possibility in my mind that this union of the families did occur if the spouse of Moshe (who was BACH's grandfather) was the sister of Mordechai Gershon Katz. If I see any further evidence regarding the spouse of Moshe I will add it to this post. (11 OCT 2022)

נפטר כ אדר ת ie died: 14.3.1640.

Does not make sense unless birth date is wrong

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