Polish rabbi; born at Wilna 1614; died at Cracow Dec. 1, 1676 (Michael; but Azulai and Horovitz give 1679; see bibliography). Among his teachers were Jacob Hoeschel and his son Joshua Hoeschel. During the Chmielnicki revolution (1648-49) the Cossacks plundered Kaidanover's possessions, his valuable library and his manuscripts among them, and killed his two little daughters, and he arrived in Moravia an impoverished fugitive. He was elected rabbi successively of Langenlois in Lower Austria, Nikolsburg, Glogau, Fürth, and Frankfort-on-the-Main, and then returned to Poland, where he died as rabbi of Cracow. He wrote: "Birkat ha-Zebaḥ," annotations to the Talmudical tractates of Ḳodashim (except Ḥullin and Bekorot), with a preface in which he narrated the remarkable events of his life (edited by his son-in-law Nahum Kohen, brother of Shabbethai Kohen [
- Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, 1:124b, Warsaw, 1876;
- Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, pp. 41, 87, 88, 659;
- Jacob Emden, Megillat Sefer, p. 5, Warsaw, 1896;
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 1:201, 2:200;
- Grätz, Gesch. 10:81;
- Horovitz, Frankfurter Rabbinen, 2:49-53,99;
- Kaufmann, Vertreibung der Juden aus Wien, p. 62, note 6, Vienna, 1889;
- Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, No. 317;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. cols. 772, 886.
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