Rabbi Berl Jeiteles

Mayor of the Jewish community in Prague

165 haRav Beer bn Loeb Jeiteles z"l 1689/90 (Footnote: One copy of his Teshuvot is at Oxford – Neubauer #2445) [Notes show year as 1685/86]

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JEITELES (Jeitteles, Geidels), prominent family first appearing in Prague. The first known Jeiteles was MOSES BEN SIMON, on record as a house owner in 1615. His son LOEB (d. 1666) was gabbai of the ḥevra kaddisha for 30 years and also of the Altschul Synagogue. BERL (Issachar Baer; d. 1685), leader of the Prague community from 1666 until his death, was imprisoned in 1664, when the community elders refused to hand over to the authorities those Jews who had attacked the witnesses against the Prague chief rabbi Simon Spira-Wedeles. He was jailed again in 1667, on a charge of instigating the shooting of the renegade informer Wenzel Wimbersky but was released in the same year. AARON BEN BAER JEITELES (d. 1777) was known as a talmudic scholar and kabbalist. His allegorical commentary on the Pentateuch, Zera Aharon, was published in 1797. MOSES WOLF (d. 1848), secretary of the ḥevra kaddisha for many years, was apparently Aaron's son. He published a compendium for the ḥevra kaddisha (1828) based on the Ma'avar Yabbok of *Aaron Berechiah b. Moses, which included a history of Prague Jewry and in which he made use of Marcus Fischer's (see Moses Fischer) allegedly medieval Ramshak Chronicle. He was the first to recognize the importance of gravestone inscriptions for historical research, and his notes served his son-in-law Koppelmann *Lieben in his Gal Ed. SIMON JEITELES was Jewish "Vorzensor" for the Jesuit censor, Haselbauer, in the second half of the 18th century,

1913--1996- The Eger Family Association- pg.1

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