Avraham Shretsel Rapaport

Name: 
Avraham Shretsel
Last name: 
Rapaport
Date of death: 
June 07, 1651
Father's name: 
Israel Yehiel
Community: 
Place of death: 
Lviv
Additional information: 

Influental talmudic scholar and teacher, disciple of Yehoshua Falk. Head of the regional foundation for the support of the Jewish community in Erets Israel (nasi Erets Israel).

See about him: Buber, Solomon. Anshei shem: geonei Israel, adirei ha-torah, rabanim, rashei metivta, morei tsedek…. Kraków: J. Fischer, 1895. S. 7-13