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Kleif Daniel (1729-1794)

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SurnameKleif
NameDaniel
Birth year1729
birth_placeAmsterdam
Death year1794
Death placeAmsterdam
SexM

Kleif Daniel Chaim (1729, Amsterdam – 1794, Amsterdam) – rabbi.

After moving from Holland to Russia, Daniel Kleif settled in Gazenpot (Courland Province), worked as a jeweller, and then became a rabbi. Author of Arugah Ketannah, a book that sets out all 248 positive commandments in rhyming verse, and a manuscript commentary on the Pentateuch. One of Kleif's sons was a doctor in the service of the Russian government (he died with the rank of state councillor in the Oryol Province in 1846).

Works: Arugah Ketannah. Altona, 1787.

Lit.: Wunderbar R. J. Geschichte der Juden in den Provinzen Liv- und Kurland. Mitava, 1853.