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The Lineage

The following is a timeline based on historical events:

• 1663 - Moshe Chafetz born in Trieste (raised in Venice)
• 1675-1678 - One of Moshe's poetic works, written at age 13, is in the Venice edition of the Bible
• 1682 - Poet Yomtov Valcasson wrote a poem for Moshe Chafetz's wedding to Yvonah Karbonnah, in Venice, Italy
• 1683 - Gershom Chafetz born on Tuesday, 11th of Adar (March 9th)
• 1696 - Moshe Chafetz publishes Hanukkat HaBayit in Venice
• 1700 - Gershom Chafetz dies of plague, fourth shabbat of Tevet (the 25th) (January 25th)
• 1700 - Moshe Chafetz posthumously publishes Gershom's Yad Charuzim in Venice
• 1710 - Moshe Chafetz publishes Melechet Machashevet in Venice
• 1711 - Moshe Chafetz dies, 30th of Cheshvan (November 12)
• 1737 - Venice Jewish community declares bankruptcy
• 1740 - Yad Charuzim second edition published in Venice
• 1766 - Venice Jewish population down to 1,700 (from 4,800 in 1655) because many prominent families left for port cities; (citation)
  Several Jewish exoduses to other Italian cities or elsewhere in Europe
• 1817 - Koenigsberg Jewish population reaches 1,027 (from 307 in 1756); (citation)
• 1859 - Melechet Machashevet second edition published in the port city of Koenigsberg (now Kaliningrad)
• 1914, 1929 - New editions of Melechet Machashevet published in Warsaw (~170 miles south of Koenigsberg, modern Kaliningrad, Russia)

Moshe Chafetz
(inside cover, Melekhet Machashevet)

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Any information about either Chafetz, or these three books, is greatly appreciated; in particular, available copies (especially Hanukkat haBayit, Yad Charuzim) or existing translations.

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