Bacharach, Yair
BACHARACH, YAIR (1639-1702), German rabbi, was the author of Hawwoth Yair (a collection of Responsa) and other works. Bacharach was a man of wide culture, and holds an honourable place among the pioneers of the Jewish Renaissance which was inaugurated towards the end of the 18th century.
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