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Akiva ben Jacob Frankfurt (Hebrew: עקיבא בן יעקב מפראנקפורט; died 1597), also known as Akiva ben Jacob Günzburg (Hebrew: עקיבא בן יעקב גינצבורג), was a German poet and rabbi. He was the son of Jacob Flesch of Prague, and the son-in-law of Rabbi Simeon Günzburg of Frankfurt, with whose congregation he was associated as preacher, and by whose name he came to be known. His grandson was the scholar Abraham Flesch (c. 1560–1640).