Emden

Germany

Emden, a port town in East Frisia in northwestern Germany, had a Jewish community of long standing. Rabbi Jacob Emden (the Ya'avetz, 1697-1776), the prominent halachist, anti-Sabbatean controversialist, and son of the Chacham Tzvi, took his surname from the town, where he served as rabbi from 1728 to 1733.

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