Affras Rachmaelovich

Affras Rachmaelovich, also known as Aphraschus Rachmailowicz, was a Jewish merchant of Mohilev and Riga, who lived about the end of the sixteenth century. He was an important business person in Lithuania acting as importer of diverse merchandise and as tax farmer in White Russia.

The records of Brest-Litovsk from 1583 display that nineteen wagon-loads of various goods, including cloths, pepper, cinnamon, prunes, and Hungarian leather, coming from Lublin, were passed through the custom-house in his behalf.

His name also appears among the first Jews on the records of Riga, that were summoned with others, about 1595, before the court of burgraves, in a suit concerning some produce of the forest.