Tuesday, 10 May 2016

YANKEV BEN AVROM VAYL

YANKEV BEN AVROM VAYL (d. 1851)
            He descended from generations of rabbis going back to the Maharam of Rothenberg.  He was born in Salzburg, where his father was rabbi.  He lived in Meiringen and Karlsruhe.  He was the author of a religious text, Torat-shabat (The laws of the Sabbath), written in Hebrew-Aramaic and stylized Yiddish, concerning the religious laws of the customary practices for Shabbat (Karlsruhe, 1889), 400 pp.; and a second text of his, Torat-yom-tov (The laws of the holidays), also in Hebrew-Aramaic and older Yiddish, remains in manuscript.  He died in Karlsruhe.

Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1; Evreiskaia entsiklopediya (Jewish encyclopedia), vol. 5.


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