XVIIth century CE

Bina ben David is a Kabbalist and rabbi of Lockacze, in Poland, active in the middle of the seventeenth century, author of "Zer Zahab" (Cracow, 1647), an alphabetical index of the Zohar and Midrash…

Salomon Bing is a German physician, son of Doctor Abraham Bing of Bingen and son-in-law of the learned Joseph Salomon del Medigo, born around 1615. Trained in Latin by the Jesuits of Mainz and Prague…

Philip Johann Bleibtreu is a Jew who converted to Christianity, born in Frankfurt am Main in the mid-seventeenth century and died in the same city in 1702. He published in German a work entitled «…

Mattithiah Ashkenazi Bloch is a Kabbalist active in Jerusalem in the seventeenth century, blind devotee and tireless apostle of Shabbetai Ẓevi, who designated him as one of his prophets entrusted…

Samuel Bochart is one of the greatest scholars of the seventeenth century and an eminent figure of the French Reformed Church, born in Rouen in 1599 and died in Caen on May 16, 1667. Trained in…

Ḥayyim b. Benjamin Ze'eb Bochner is a kabbalist, talmudist, and grammarian born in Cracow, Galicia, in the first quarter of the seventeenth century, and died in Fürth, Bavaria, on February 2, 1684,…

Boleslas I the Brave is king of Poland from 992 to 1025. According to the Polish preacher Matheusz Bembo and historian Maciejowski, it was during his reign that the first Jews would have settled in…

Daniel Israël Bonafoux is an active follower of Shabbetai Ẓevi established in Smyrna in the seventeenth century, who claimed after his master's apostasy and death to have prophetic visions and…

Moses ben Salomon of Boshal (or Bostal) is a Turkish Talmudist and preacher of the seventeenth century, author of 'Yismaḥ Mosheh', a homiletical commentary on the Pentateuch published in Smyrna in…

Fernando Alvarez Brandam is a Marrano and physician of Lisbon active in the seventeenth century, contemporary of Manuel Fernandez de Villa-Real, who qualified him as an eminent and illustrious…

Moïse Brandeis, nicknamed Ḥarif ('the Perspicacious'), is a rabbi and German talmudic master born around 1685 and died June 24, 1761 in Mainz, son of rabbi Jacob Brandeis of Zorek. Trained at Abraham…

Reviser of the rabbinic Bible published by the printer König of Basel in 1619, and assistant to Johannes Buxtorf, father and son, at whose request he was authorized to settle in Basel. During the…

Judah Leon ben Eliézer Brieli (or Briel) is a rabbi of Mantua born around 1643 and died in 1722, a high talmudic authority also versed in profane sciences. Esteemed by the Sephardic community of…

Johannes Buxtorf, nephew of Johannes Jakob Buxtorf, was born on January 8, 1663 and died on June 19, 1732. Professor of Hebrew at Basel, he published the « Specimen Phraseologiae V. T. Hebr. »…

Johannes Jakob Buxtorf, professor of Hebrew at Basel, son of Johannes Buxtorf II and his fourth wife, is born on 4 September 1645 and dies on 4 April 1705. According to a letter from his father to…

Baruch Calimani is an Italian editor active in Venice in the second half of the sixteenth century and early seventeenth. He publishes the work of his master Éliézer Ashkenazi, "Ma'assé Adonaï"…

Professor of theology and philology, born of peasant parents in Molschleben in 1694 and died in 1760. Appointed professor of philology at the University of Halle in 1735 then of theology in 1739, he…

French Catholic theologian, historian and biblicist, born in 1672 in Lorraine and died in Paris in 1757. Entered the Benedictines in 1688, he learned Hebrew and became abbot of Senones. He published…

English Hebraist, born in 1606 and died in York in 1679. He is the author of The Blessed Jew of Morocco, published in York in 1648, an adaptation of the famous letter of Samuel Maroccanus, itself…

Lutheran theologian, born in 1650 in Hildesheim and died in 1725 in Clausthal. Deacon in Zellerfeld in 1677, he became superintendent in 1684, consistory counselor in 1708 and general superintendent…

Poet of the seventeenth century, author of Aguddat Ezob, a collection of poems and rhetorical compositions in three parts, praised by Isaac Cansino and David Abu al-Khair. Arrested by Spanish…

Liturgical poet and prominent member of the Jewish community of Oran, died in 1672, probably brother of Jacob Cansino II. Cantor at the synagogue on the Day of Atonement, a post held to be a position…

Italian physician and rabbi, born around 1650 in Padua and died in that city in 1694. He had a large clientele of both Christian and Jewish patients, visiting his poorest patients free of charge,…

Philanthropist and founder of the Hamburg synagogue, where he lived in the first half of the seventeenth century. A descendant of a Spanish family of that name and one of the first Jewish settlers of…

Sabbatean prophet and physician, born in Spain circa 1630 and died in Cairo in 1706; descendant of Marranos from the Portuguese town of Celorico. After studying medicine, he left Spain for Venice,…

Lived in Amsterdam in the second half of the seventeenth century; member of the Academia de los Floridos, founded by D. Manuel de Belmonte, he was administrator of the academy Temime Derech in 1683…

Spanish writer who lived in Hamburg in the first half of the seventeenth century. He translated the Song of Songs into Spanish under the title Cantares de Selomo, Traduzido de Lengua Caldayca en…

German Christian theologian and Hebraist, born in 1639 and died in 1699, from a family which, like the Buxtorfs, counted a long lineage of scholars. He studied Hebrew under Johannes Buxtorf II in…

German Protestant biblical scholar, born in 1679 in Dresden and died in 1767 in Lübeck, nephew of Johann Benedict II and son of Samuel Benedict — the most important biblical scholar of the Carpzov…

Apologist born in Madrid around 1670, of Marrano parents. First an Augustinian monk in Burgos and renowned preacher, he converted to Judaism in Livorno during a trip to Rome, then, settled in Holland…

Spanish poet who lived in Amsterdam in the middle of the seventeenth century. He is the author of an elegy on the martyr Abraham Nuñez de Bernal, burned in Córdoba in 1655, inserted in the Elogios…

Poet active in Amsterdam, died after 1684. Member of several poetry academies in his city, renowned for his riddles, he composed verses for the Coro de las Musas of Miguel de Barrios and for the…

Physician in Padua, died in 1642. He is the author of an unpublished manuscript treatise, 'Olam Hafuk, on the plague that raged from 1630 onwards, during which he was very active.

Reputed Talmudist of the seventeenth century. He, his son, also named Abraham Catalan, and his brother Elijah Catalan were contemporaries of R. Ḥayyim Shabbethai in Salonique.

Italian poet born in Padua, son of physician Abraham Catalan. Rabbi in his native city, where he died at an advanced age in 1661, he was the recipient of the very first letters from his pupil Isaac…

Chinese mandarin, active around 1653. After the sack of K'ai-Fong, following the fall of the Ming dynasty in 1642, the synagogue of the city was destroyed and the Jews took refuge on the other side…

Jew converted to Christianity, born in the middle of the seventeenth century and died in Prossnitz at the beginning of the eighteenth, he was previously named Baruch and worked as ḥazzan in Bruchsal…

Author and Jewish convert to Christianity, born in Altorf at the end of the seventeenth century and died in Prague around 1740, probably a member of the Keyser family of Schleusingen, Bavaria; he…

Queen of Sweden, born in Stockholm in 1626 and died in Rome in 1689, daughter of Gustavus Adolphus and Marie-Éléonore of Brandenburg; she reigned from 1632 to 1654. Her attitude toward Jews was most…

Bishop of Peterborough and Christian Hebraicist, born in 1671 and died in 1747. Royal professor of Hebrew at Oxford from 1715 until his death, he published there in 1705 a translation of sections of…

German theologian and Hebraist, born in Bremen in 1603, died in Leiden on November 5, 1669. Professor of Hebrew in Bremen from 1629 then in Franeker from 1636, he also teaches theology there before…

Physician ordinary at the court of Prince Vassile Lupu, hospodar of Moldavia from 1634 to 1654; his dates of birth and death, as well as his first name, remain unknown. According to E. Schwarzfeld,…

Italian rabbi, born in Alessandria della Paglia in the second half of the 17th century, died in Reggio nell'Emilia in 1739. From a wealthy and prominent family, he was elected rabbi of Casale while…

Writer established in Hamburg in the seventeenth century. In 1631, he translates into Spanish, or transliterates in Latin characters a Judeo-Spanish version in Hebrew letters, the Song of Songs,…

Rabbi and Italian author of the second half of the seventeenth century, one of the rabbis of Modena, renowned as a fine Talmudist. His responsa on talmudic questions appear in the Paḥad Yiṣḥaq of…

Converted to Christianity, he lived in Paris and then in Metz in the second half of the seventeenth century, descendant of Rabbi Jacob Weil of Nuremberg. Having embraced Christianity in his youth, he…

Italian author who lived in Asti and Chieri in the early seventeenth century. He publishes several Hebrew poems, including the Ot le-Ṭobah, twenty-two talmudic sentences arranged according to the…

Historian of Hebrew literature, born in Salonika around 1618, died around 1685, from a family of scholars. He married a granddaughter of Menahem of Lonsano, went twice to Palestine — in 1644 alone,…

Nephew of Abraham ben Lévi Conque, he lived in Hebron, in Palestine, in the 17th century. He was the master of Isaac b. Juda Rapoport, and some of his novellæ and responsa are cited in the works of…

Rabbi of Zamość, Poland, at the end of the 17th century, also called Tarcziner. He writes « Pené Aryé Zouta » (The Small Face of the Lion), published in Wilhelmsdorf in 1720 — and, according to some,…

Portuguese Jew, agent at the court of Charles II of England, born in Beira, in Portugal, died after 1665. After a stay in Bordeaux from 1640 to 1644, he settled in Rouen the same year, before…

Spanish army contractor, born in 1656, died in London in 1742, fifth direct descendant of Emanuel José Cortissos, marquis of Villa, active around 1475. Ambassador of Emperor Charles to Morocco, he…

Chamberlain to Queen Catherine of Bragance, wife of Charles II of England, active around 1665. His position at court owed to the influence of his brother Antonio Mendes, who had cured the queen of…

Dutch preacher hostile to Jews, active in Amsterdam in the seventeenth century. He publishes in 1658 a Historia der Joden, history of the Jews from their dispersion until his time, where he describes…

Writer hostile to Jews in Germany, in the early 17th century. He is the author of De Judæorum Privilegiis (Darmstadt, 1604-12) and Geistliches Bedenken, ob die Juden und Ihr Wucher in dem Römischen…

Jew converted to Christianity, he lived in Rome in the seventeenth century. In 1666, he translates from Spanish into Italian the treatise on chocolate by Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma, printed with…

Lord Protector of England, born April 25, 1599, died September 3, 1658. Favorable to the readmission of Jews to England, partly to fulfill messianic prophecy but chiefly because of the services…

Jacob Curiel, known in public life under the name of Alexandre Nuñez da Costa, resides at the Portuguese court of Hamburg around the middle of the seventeenth century and dies there in 1665.…

Italian poet established in Padua, Sema Cuzzeri witnessed the attack on the ghetto of the city on August 20, 1684. He drew from it an Italian poem, « L'Innocenza Illesa », which takes up the…

Rabbi of Turin in the 17th century, son of Rabbi Joseph Calvo. Encyclopaedia Judaica ranks him among the most important rabbis of the Turin community in the 17th century, alongside his father and…

Rabbi, notary and kabbalist of Meknès in the 17th century. Principal ideologue of Sabbatean messianism in Morocco after the conversion of Shabbetaï Tsvi in 1666; through gematria calculations he…

Born in Montilla into a family of Portuguese conversos, Daniel Levi de Barrios (Christian name Miguel) lived in Brussels before joining the Judeo-Portuguese community of Amsterdam, where he became…

Hebraist and Talmudist born in Belgrade around 1620 and died in London around the end of the seventeenth century, Joseph ben Jacob ben Moses ibn Danon is secretary of Joseph Almosnino, rabbi of…

German theologian and Hebraist born in Sundhausen, near Gotha, in 1654 and died in Jena on 22 December 1727, Johann Andreas Danz studied at Wittenberg then at Hamburg, where he learned Hebrew from…

Rabbi and biblical commentator known as the « Baal Metzudot ». Seeing Tanakh study weaken, he composed a clear and simple commentary on the Nevi'im and Ketuvim, published in Zolkiew in 1753. After…

Rabbi of Fès, seventeenth century. Mentioned in 5458 of the Hebrew era (1698). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 26-3.

Rabbi of Sefrou, 17th century. Mentioned in 5387 of the Hebrew era (1627). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 24-4.

German Talmudist born in Posen and died in Ottensen, near Hamburg, in 1699, David (Tevele) b. Benjamin is the author of the « Masoret ha-Berit », a homiletical commentary on the Pentateuch and the…

Polish scholar known only as the author of a commentary, in reality a glossary, on the « Targoum Jonathan » and the « Targoum Yerushalmi » of the Pentateuch as well as on the Targoum Sheni of the…

Lithuanian rabbi of the 17th century, nephew on his mother's side of R. Moses Rivkes, author of « Be'er ha-Golah », David ben Aryeh Löb of Lida exercised successively in Lida, Zwolen, Mainz and…

Dutch scholar established in Amsterdam in the first half of the 17th century, David ben Menahem Cohen is the author of the "Mizmor le-Todah", edited by Elie Aboab in Amsterdam in 1644, which renders…

Rabbi, active in the 5th century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 28-2.

Italian rabbi and editor

Rabbi of Meknès, active in the 5th century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Son of Yosef. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 26-4.

Rabbi of Tétouan, 17th century. Mentioned in 5429 of the Hebrew era (1669). Son of Yaakov. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 25-2.

17th century rabbi

Around 1664, he led a group of Sephardic Jews (after expulsion from Brazil and then French Guiana) to Jodensavanne, in Dutch Surinam, founding one of the most privileged Jewish communities in the…

Rabbi of Debdou, active in the 5th century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Son of Haim. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 53-1.

17th-century Ottoman rabbi and literary historian

Portuguese printer

Rabbi of Rashid, Egypt, active in the mid-seventeenth century, David Gerson is the contemporary of Mordecai ben Juda ha-Lévi, author of the "Darke No'am" in which some of his responsa appear, and is…

Founder in 1685/1696 of a textile, wine and spirits trading house, he settled in Martinique then developed from 1728 onward the shipping business with his son Abraham under the name « David Gradis &…

Polish halakhic authority, author of the Turei Zahav (Taz), a fundamental commentary on the Shulchan Aruch. Son-in-law of the Bach, he survived the massacres of 1648.

Rabbi of Meknès, active in the 5th century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 27-1.

Blind Kabbalist established in Salonique at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century, David ibn Hin devoted himself to the study of Kabbalah and published the « Sefer Gerushim » of Moïse…

Rabbi of Salé, active in the 5th century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Son of Aharon. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 26-3.

Rabbi of Karasubazar, in Crimea, at the end of the seventeenth century, originally from Poland — hence his Tatar epithet « Laḥni », from « Liaḥ », designating Poland —, David Laḥni ben Eliezer is the…

Rabbi of Tafilalet, active in the 5th century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 27-1.

Ashkenazi rabbi, Chief Rabbi of Mainz then Amsterdam, author of halakhic works.

Rabbi of Meknès, active in the 5th century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 25-3.

scientist and physician, rabbi of the Sephardic community of London

Born in Amsterdam, trained at the yeshiva Ets Haim. Called around 1690 as rabbi of the Portuguese congregation of The Hague, a post he held until his death in 1728. Was president of the academies Abi…

Chief Rabbi of Prague and famous collector of Hebrew books and manuscripts.

Rabbi of Salé, active in the fifth century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Son of Aharon. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 26-3.

Rabbi of Fez, 17th century. Mentioned in 5449 of the Hebrew era (1689). Son of Haim. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 26-2.

Italian rabbi born around 1618 and died in Ferrara on April 2, 1678, Juda Ashael Del Bene signs with Menahem Recanati a halakhic decision on the remission of debts in the jubilee year, cited by Isaac…

One of the first members of the Portuguese community of Hamburg, Albertus Denis signs on May 31, 1611 the agreement guaranteeing to the community its cemetery in Altona and is admitted to the city in…

Author, editor and bookseller of Amsterdam, Moses b. Isaac Dias publishes in 1695 the Spanish translation of the Pentateuch by Joseph Franco Serrano, then, until 1715, several Hebrew works; he is…

Italian rabbi established in Rovigo at the end of the 17th century, David Diena, consulted on talmudic questions by R. Nathaniel Segré, has his responsa first published in the collection « 'Afar…

Archbishop of Cranganor born in Lisbon in 1654 and died in Évora on October 28, 1713, doctor of theology charged with a mission to Rome, Diogo Justiniano Álvares da Anunciação was appointed in 1692…

Biblical commentator and poet of the 17th century born in Grodno, Lithuania, Samuel b. Moïse Dlugosz edited the Prophets and the Hagiographes of the Judeo-German Bible translation, the "Ha-Maggid",…

Syndic of the Jewish communities of Amsterdam and then London in the seventeenth century, born in a major city of Andalusia where he was alderman and lifetime treasurer of customs and royal revenues.…

English ecclesiastic of the seventeenth century. He met Manasseh ben Israel in 1644 and gathered from him the account of the alleged discovery of the Ten Tribes in America by Antonio de Montesino; a…

Anti-Jewish author born in Mannheim in 1654, died in Heidelberg on December 20, 1704. Sent by the Elector Palatine to study in England and Holland, he subsequently devoted nearly twenty years to the…

European rabbi

Rabbi born in Kraków around 1665, died in Safed, Palestine, in 1742. Dayyan of Kraków, he became rabbi of Rakow in 1708, then of Brody in 1714, before answering in 1735 the call of the Ashkenazi…

Polish sage active in Posen in the 16th and 17th centuries, author of a commentary on Pirké Avot entitled "Ḳiryat Ḥannah" (Prague, 1612).

Religious writer in Hebrew and Judeo-German, active in the second half of the seventeenth century and early eighteenth century in Prossnitz, Moravia, where he was beadle, cantor, and scribe. He…

Moral writer active in Frankfurt-am-Main at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century, author in Judeo-German of « Simḥat ha-Nefesh » (Frankfurt, 1707), a very popular work…

Rabbi of Fès, active in the 5th century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Son of Nehemia. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 21-1.

Rabbi of Fès, active in the 5th century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 21-3.

Rabbi of Salé, active in the 5th century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 21-2.

Talmudic scholar active in Lublin in the 17th century, author of a commentary on the Pentateuch entitled « Adderet Eliyahou » (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1649).

Rabbi of Hebron, author of responsa illuminating Jewish life in seventeenth-century Palestine.

German scholar of the seventeenth century, author of a calendar, « 'Ibronot » (Lublin, 1615), based on the work of Jacob Marcaria (Riva di Trento, 1561) and perfected by a circular table facilitating…

Talmudist of the seventeenth century, author of the « Petaḥ 'Enayim », an index of biblical passages cited in the Zohar and the Tiqqounim (Cracow, 1647; reissued with the Zohar, Sulzbach, 1684), and…

Printer of Mantua active in the early seventeenth century, who reopened in 1612 a Hebrew printing workshop in the city after a long interruption. That year, he published notably the « Ayyelet…

Ottoman rabbi

rabbi

Rabbi and decisionist, author of the Eliyahu Rabbah, active in Prague and Tiktin.

Rabbi, 17th century. Died in 5433 of the Hebrew era (1673). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 23-2.

Judeo-Persian poet, author of Shahzada va Sufi, Persian adaptation of the Buddha legend.

Polish Talmudist active in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, trained in Talmud at Posen then rabbi of Schwersenz, where he wrote around 1679 a haggadic commentary, before being called to…

Sephardic family of Iberian origin (Louzada/Lousada), refugeed and then established in London. Moses Baruh Lousada was appointed gabbay of the Sephardic community of London in 1663; the Baruh…

German Talmudist and resolute opponent of Sabbateanism, born in Altona on June 4, 1697 and died in that city on April 19, 1776, trained in the Talmud by his father, called « Ḥakam Ẓebi ». Married in…

Talmudist and popular preacher who died after 1662, from a family of scholars of Posen. He left Krakow in 1649 to become rabbi of Gnesen, was sent in 1652 to collect funds in Germany for the heavily…

Rabbi and Italian cabalist born in Livorno in 1685, died on May 19, 1730. He fought in two polemical works (London, 1715) the theses of Nehemia Hayyoun, whom he accused of Sabbatean heresy, then…

Joseph ben Saül Escapa was rabbi of Smyrna in the first half of the 17th century, after having directed the yeshiva of Salonique. He remained sole rabbi of Smyrna after the death of his colleague…

Lorenço Escudero, in Hebrew Abraham Israël, was a Spanish poet born in Cordova of marrano parents and died around 1683. Converted to Judaism, he lived in great poverty in Amsterdam and refused,…

Issachar Berush Eskeles was an Austrian rabbi and financier, born in 1692 and died in Vienna on March 2, 1753, son of Gabriel Eskeles and son-in-law of Samson Wertheimer. Appointed rabbi of Kremsir…

Gabriel Esperanssa was rabbi in Safed in the mid-17th century, contemporary of Jonathan Galante. Collected, according to tradition, as an orphan by a woman named Esperanssa from whom he took his…

Alexander ben Moses Ethausen was a German scholar who lived in Fulda in the seventeenth century. He is the author of a work in Judeo-German in two parts: "Bet Yisrael", a history of the Jews until…

Polish-German rabbi

Chief Jewish merchant of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Cochin for nearly fifty years, he pursued a cultural policy of purchasing Hebrew books in Holland for his community. He deciphered…

Abraham Aboab Falero was a Portuguese philanthropist who died in Verona in 1642. Established in Hamburg at the turn of the 17th century, he had a synagogue built there for the Portuguese community,…

Juan de Faria was a Marrano poet who, residing in Brussels in 1672, composed a poem in honor of his friend Miguel de Barrios for his « Coro de las Musas ». Barrios designated him, with Aaron Dormido,…

Portuguese physician and poet born in Porto, died in Amsterdam in 1663. After practicing medicine in Lisbon, he emigrated to Amsterdam, where he became president of the Portuguese community in 1639.…

Political economist and dramatist born in Lisbon of Marrano parents. After studies at the University of Madrid and a military career in which he became a captain, he settled in Paris as consul…

Leader of the guilds of Frankfurt-am-Main against the Jews, instigator in 1614 of the riots that caused their expulsion from the city, he is hanged in 1616. After failing to obtain a position in…

Preacher in Venice, died in Rovigo in 1647, also reputed to be an excellent scribe. He is the author of the 'Iggerot u-Teshuvot', letters and responsa published in the 'Be'er Sheva'' (Venice, 1614),…

Rabbi in Vienna in the early 17th century, identified by G. Wolf as Abraham Austerlitz. He is the author of a funeral eulogy, 'Arid be-Siḥi', published at the end of the 'Minḥat Yiẓḥaḳ' of Isaac b.…

Rabbi of Salonika, active in the 17th century, author of « Me'il Shemuel » (Salonika, 1725), a collection of responsa and Talmudic analecta accompanied by notes from his brother Isaac Florentin on…

Turkish Talmudist active in Salonika in the 17th century, author of the « Doresh Mishpaṭ » (Salonika, 1655), a collection of marginal notes by Solomon ibn Ḥassoun, Solomon b. Isaac Lévi, Daniel…

Italian rabbi and author who died in Reggio after 1641, student of R. Moshe Isserlès and versed in the Talmud and Kabbalah. He founded in Reggio the society « Ḥebrat ha-'Alubim » and published during…

Italian poet and rabbinical scholar born in Mantua on July 22, 1618 (?), died in Livorno after 1703, trained by his older brother Jacob and by Joseph Firmo of Ancona. A fierce opponent, with this…

Italian scholar and poet born in Mantua in 1615, died in Florence in 1667, trained in the Talmud by his father and then by Shemaya of Medina in Venice. His poetic reputation rests mainly on his…

Dutch-Sephardi Jewish banker

Court Jew of the margraves of Ansbach around 1700, very influential at court and highly esteemed by the Jews of the margraviate, he maintained his eminent position until his death; in reward for his…

German mystic of the 17th century, friend and correspondent of Manasseh ben Israël. Influential nobleman of the Oels district in Silesia and disciple of Jacob Böhme, he affirmed that 'true light will…

Dayyan and printer of Amsterdam, born in 1672, died in 1762, who took in his old age the name "Aaron". He established in 1720 a printing house in Amsterdam, from which came several of his own works…

Physician and Algerian man of letters of Granadian origin, died in Tlemcen in 1605. Established as a physician in Algiers from 1574, he acquired a wide clientele there and composed a commentary on…

Russian physician of Polish Jewish origin, active at the court of Moscow under the tsars Alexis Mikhailovich and Fedor Alekseyevich, born in the first quarter of the seventeenth century and killed in…

French Christian scholar specializing in Kabbalah, born in Mannes, Provence, in 1601, died in Sigonce in 1681. Although unreliable, his works on Hebrew mysticism include « Yom Yhwh » (1629) and an «…

French Christian Orientalist born in Paris around 1670, died in Oxford on March 2, 1740. Trained early in Oriental languages, Hebrew and Arabic, he left the Catholic priesthood for Protestantism and…

Neo-Hebrew poet who died in Palestine on November 25, 1624. First hazzan of the first synagogue of Amsterdam, a position he held for fourteen years before settling in Palestine, he edits a collection…

Italian Talmudist and kabbalist of the 16th-17th centuries, student of Moses Cordovero and master of Menahem Azaria de Fano. He compiled « 'Asis Rimmonim », extracts from Cordovero's « Pardès…

Egyptian scholar active in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the rabbis of Cairo in the time of R. Jacob Castro, universally recognized as a great Talmudist. A volume of his responsa…

English financier born in London in 1699 and died in 1762, son of Rowland Gideon who had Frenchified his Portuguese name « Abudiente » by settling in England, he began in business in 1720 and became…

Talmudist and rabbi of the seventeenth century, originating from Jerusalem, who traveled in Italy and lived in Livorno while also serving as rabbi in Verona. Esteemed correspondent of Samuel Aboab…

Turkish Talmudist and preacher of the 17th century, active in Salonika where he died around 1705. He is the author of sermons entitled "Odeh Adonai" (Venice, 1681-82), and some of his talmudic…

German rabbi

Traveler of the first half of the seventeenth century, author of the curious and very rare « Gelilot Ereẓ Yisrael », in Judeo-German, which describes several routes to Jerusalem and relates his…

Rabbi and proofreader at Venice at the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth, born in Safed where he returned after 1625. He corrected, according to Conforte, all the…

Businesswoman and memoirist of Hamburg, author of memoirs in Yiddish that constitute a unique testimony on the daily life of Ashkenazi Jews in the seventeenth century. Mother of fourteen children and…

German Jewish businesswoman and diarist. Written over thirty years in her native Western Yiddish (with passages in Hebrew), her seven books of memoirs (Zikhroynes), initially conceived as an ethical…

Joanniki Golyatovski, or Galiatovski, is an ecclesiastic and anti-Jewish polemicist of Little Russia who died in 1688. Trained at the Mogilien college of Kiev, he became its rector and distinguished…

Isaac Gómez de Sosa, son of Abraham Gómez de Sosa, is a poet in Latin, arbiter of the academy of poetry founded by Don Manuel de Belmonte in 1677. He composes the Latin epitaph of his father's tomb,…

Joseph Issachar Baer ben Elhanan Götz is a German rabbi born in Frankfurt-an-der-Oder around 1640 and died in Jerusalem after 1701. Rabbi of his native city from 1675, he became in 1687 rabbi of…

David Grünhut is a German rabbi of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, born in Frankfurt am Main, where his father was secretary of the community and his maternal grandfather, Simon Günzburg,…

Joseph ben Mordecai Günzburg is a Russian Talmudist active in Brest-Litovsk in the second half of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th, son of the rabbi of Brest, in office from 1664 to…

Zerahiah Gutah is a talmudic author of the seventeenth century died in Cairo in 1647. Student of Jehiel Bassani and Joseph di Trani in Constantinople, he then settles in Jerusalem and then Hebron…

rabbi (1616–1678)

Moses ibn Ḥabib is a Palestinian rabbi of the 17th century, disciple and son-in-law of Jacob Ḥagiz. He is the author of Geṭ Pashuṭ, on the laws of divorce (Ortaköy, 1714), of Talmudic novellae…

Samuel ben Jacob ben Samuel Ḥagiz, called of Fès, died in 1634 according to his epitaph, is the father of Jacob Ḥagiz and the grandfather of Moses Ḥagiz. He edits around 1596 the Tif'eret Yisrael of…

Printer active in Prague between 1612 and 1628, son of Siméon Haïda. Associated with Moïse Utitz and Gershon Popers, he participated from 1610 in the printing of « Kéli Ḥemda » by Samuel Laniado,…

Samuel Haida is a Bohemian Kabbalist author who died on June 1, 1685 in Prague, where he was a dayyan and preacher and probably a native. In 1676 he edits in Prague the Tanna debe Eliyahou Rabba,…

Rabbi of Fez, 17th century. Mentioned in 5449 of the Hebrew era (1689). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-2.

Rabbi, active in the 5th century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Son of Benyamin. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-1.

Rabbi of Sefrou, active in the 5th century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-1.

Rabbi of Debdou, active in the fifth century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-1.

Rabbi, 17th century. Died in 5442 of the Hebrew era (1682). Son of Habib. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 36-4.

Rabbi of Fès, active in the 5th century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-2.

Rabbi of Fès, seventeenth century. Died in 5407 of the Hebrew era (1647). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 36-4.

Joseph Hammerschlag, or Nathan Nat'a Ḥazzan ben Moses Naphtali Hirsch, is a seventeenth-century Moravian Kabbalist, author of a commentary on part of the Zohar, the Or ha-Ganuz, begun in 1648, and of…

Rabbi of Tétouan, 17th century. Mentioned in 5412 of the Hebrew era (1652). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 41-3.

Rabbi of Fès, active in the 5th century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 41-4.

Salomon ben Juda Hanau is a German grammarian born in Hanau in 1687 and died in Hanover on September 4, 1746. He published very young in Frankfurt am Main a Hebrew grammar that severely criticized…

Ẓebi Hirsch ha-Levi Hanau, whose family name was Fränkel, is a German rabbi born in Vienna in 1662 and died in Gemünd, Bavaria, in 1740. He resided for a long time in Frankfurt-am-Main, where he…

Raphael Lévi Hanover, son of Jacob Joseph, is a mathematician and astronomer born in Weikersheim, Franconia, in 1685, and died in Hanover on May 17, 1779. Trained at the Jewish school of Hanover then…

Nathan ben Moïse Hanovre is a historian, talmudist and cabalist of Russian origin, died, according to Zunz, in Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia, on 14 July 1663. After fleeing the Cossack attack on Zaslav, in…

Hermann von der Hardt was a Protestant theologian and German philologist born in Melle, Westphalia, on November 15, 1660, and died on February 28, 1746. He became in 1690 professor of oriental…

Ḥasdaï ben Samuel ben Peraḥya ha-Cohen was a Turkish rabbi born and died in Salonica, in September 1677, claiming descent from Joseph ben Gorion. Son of the scholar Samuel ben Peraḥya and disciple of…

Rabbi in Meknès in the 17th–18th centuries, contemporary and study companion of Rabbi Hayim Toledano.

Rabbi of Meknès, seventeenth century. Mentioned in 5429 of the Hebrew era (1669). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 42-3.

Rabbinic authority of Smyrna who, in his old age, restored the Jewish community of Tiberias.