Jonas Yom-Tob Spitz (; 1797–1874) was a teacher of

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in the Jewish school of

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during the first half of the nineteenth century. He was the author of ''Alon bakut'' (Prague, 1826), on the death of his grandfather Rabbi Eleazar Fleckeles of Prague; ''Zikhron Eliezer'' (Prague, 1827), a biography of Fleckeles; and ''Toledot Yitzḥak'', a biography of his father,

Isaac Spitz Isaac Spitz (; 1764 – 6 May 1842) was ''av beit din'' in Mladá Boleslav, Bohemia. He wrote ''Matʼame Yitzḥak'', a collection of songs, melodies, and sayings, which was published posthumously in Prague in 1843. Biography Isaac Spitz was bor ...

. Spitz was a collaborator on the ''

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'', to volumes VI and VII of which he contributed sixteen scientific essays.

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