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SUMMARY Part i Seven Generations in Denmark Chapter 1 Jacob Moisting ( 1690 ? -1771 ?) 5 storyof Georg Cohn s antecedents in Denmark begins with Jacob Moisling , who lived in Copenhagen toward the end of his life . He moved there , as his name implies , from Moisling , a small village outside the Hanseatic harbor city of Lubeck , which enjoyed the lh protection of the Danish kings from the mid-1 7 century , when Jews to settle there . Lubeck itself was closed to all but a handful of , and Jacob Moisling seems also to have lived there for a time , his son Isac states that he was born there in 1714 . document dated 1724 preserves the Takkanot ( Regulations ) of the Chevra Kadisha Talmud Torah ( Burial Society and School ) of Moisling , showing both the centrality of Torah study in the lifeof the community and the social and communal concerns of the villagers . was the background of the "learned Jacob Moisling " , who had presumably moved to Copenhagen to be with his son Isac . The latter...
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