Yakkar ben Samuel ha-Levi
Yakkar ben Samuel ha-Levi II (; died 1271) was a German Jewish scholar and liturgical poet, who flourished in Cologne and in Mainz in the second half of the thirteenth ceutury. He was related to Meïr of Rothenburg, in whose responsa he is several times mentioned, and was a pupil of Rabbi Jehiel of Paris. Yakkar and his father, Samuel ben Abraham, died in the massacre of 1271. Work. His marginal glosses to "Avot" are still preserved in manuscript. He was, besides, the author of a number of liturgical poems, including: Yakkar ben Samuel ha