# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joshua-falk
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:32:24.431Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joshua-falk"
name: "Joshua Falk"
slug: "joshua-falk"
description: "Yehoshua ben Alexander HaCohen Falk was a Polish Halakhist and Talmudist, best known as the author of the Drisha and Prisha commentaries on the Arba'ah Turim as well as Sefer Me'irat Enayim (סמ\"ע) on Shulkhan Arukh. His name also occurs as the Hebrew acronyms רפ\"כ (\"RaFaC\"), מהרו\"כ (\"Ma-HaRWaC\"), and מהר\"י כ\"ץ."
tagline: "Polish rabbi"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Stary_cmentarz_%C5%BCydowski_we_Lwowie_-12.jpg/330px-Stary_cmentarz_%C5%BCydowski_we_Lwowie_-12.jpg"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1555"
deathDate: "1614-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.82268
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehoschua_Falk"
    title: "Jehoschua Falk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Falk"
    title: "Joshua Falk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%A2_%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%A7_%D7%9B%D7%A5"
    title: "יהושע פלק כץ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosua_Falk"
    title: "Yosua Falk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%A2_%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%A7_%D7%9B%22%D7%A5"
    title: "יהושע פלק כ\"ץ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12407870"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump