Yair Bacharach

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Yair Bacharach (1639—1702), German rabbi, was the author of Havvot Yair (a collection of Responsa.) and other works. Bacharach was a man of wide culture, and holds an honourable place among the pioneers of the Jewish Renaissance[?] which was inaugurated towards the end of the 18th century.