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Naḥman B. Samuel ha-Levi

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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Frankist; rabbi of Busk, Galicia; lived in the first part of the eighteenth century. When Mikulski, the administrator of the archbishopric of Lemberg, invited the representatives of Judaism to a disputation with the Frankists July 16, 1759, Naḥman was one of the Frankist delegates. On his baptism into the Christian faith he took the name of Piotr Jacobski.

Bibliography:
  • Grätz, Gesch. der Juden, 10:392.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Naḥman B. Samuel ha-Levi'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​n/naman-b-samuel-ha-levi.html. 1901.
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