XVIIth century CE

Rabbi of Constantinople then of Palestine, author of the homiletical work Esh Dat.

Ḥayyim ben Moïse 'Aṭṭar was an Italian rabbi born in Sale, near Brescia, in 1696, and died in Jerusalem in 1743, trained by his grandfather, the rabbi Ḥayyim. He published Ḥefeṣ ha-Shem, talmudic…

Ḥayyim ben Isaac Reizes, head of the yechiva of Lemberg, born in 1687, died a martyr on May 13, 1728. He and his brother Joshua were thrown into prison on the eve of Pesach, on March 24, 1728, on the…

Ḥayyim ben Nathan is a German scholar of the seventeenth century who translates into Judeo-German the historical parts of the Bible, based on Luther's translation enriched with legends drawn from the…

Born in Constantinople, he was appointed rabbi of Tira (near Izmir) in 1644 then chief rabbi of Smyrna (1655), where he played a leading role in the episode of Shabbetaï Tsevi. His halakhic work, the…

Foremost disciple of Rabbi Isaac Luria, he recorded and disseminated Lurianic Kabbalah in the Etz Hayyim. His work is the foundation of modern Jewish mysticism.

Elijah ibn Ḥayyim is a rabbi of Constantinople, perhaps the immediate successor of Élie Mizraḥi, born around 1532 and died in the early 17th century; his responsa mention a date of 1562 and another…

Gedaliah Ḥayyon is a Turkish rabbi born in Constantinople in the second half of the seventeenth century, student of Alfandari the Younger. Established in Jerusalem, he travels as a volunteer emissary…

Kabbalist established in Jerusalem in the seventeenth century, Aaron ben David Ḥayyun sat as dayyan in the rabbinate of Moses Galante alongside David Yiẓḥaḳi and Jacob Molko. One of his decisions,…

Nehemia Ḥiyya ben Moïse Ḥayyoun is a Bosnian Kabbalist born around 1650 and died around 1730, from a Sephardic family of Sarajevo, trained in Talmud in Hebron. Becoming rabbi of Uskub, near Salonika,…

Menahem (Manus) ben Isaac Ḥayyut is a Polish rabbi who died in Vilna around May 1636, son of R. Isaac ben Abraham Ḥayyut, whose family traces back to Provence and who settled in Prague in 1584. Rabbi…

Abraham ben Hezekiah Ḥazḳouni is a Galician Talmudist and Kabbalist born in Krakow in 1627 and died in Tripoli, Syria, disciple of Yom-Ṭob Lipman Heller. He publishes Zot Ḥuḳḳat ha-Torah, an…

Éliézer ben Mordekhaï Heilprin is a Polish rabbi probably born in Jaroslaw, Galicia, in 1648, and died in Fürth in 1700. He successively held the rabbinate in Gross-Meseritz, Moravia, in Tomaszów,…

Jehiel ben Salomon Heilprin is a Lithuanian rabbi, Kabbalist and chronicler born around 1660 and died in Minsk around 1746, descendant of Solomon Louria and tracing back, via Rashi, to the tanna…

Joel ben Isaac Heilprin is a Polish Hasidic rabbi active in Ostrog in the middle of the 17th century, known as the first « Baal Chem » for his reputation for Talmudic and kabbalistic erudition. The…

Helicon is a court jester, favorite of the Roman emperor Caligula, of Egyptian origin, known for his hostility toward Jews. With Apelles of Ascalon, he contributed to the failure of the embassy of…

Jacob Moses ben Abraham Ashkenazi Hélin is a Polish Talmudist born around 1625 and died around 1700, trained in Lublin under R. Naphtali ha-Cohen and R. Heshel, and son-in-law of Löb Heller, rabbi of…

Isabella Henriquez is a Spanish poetess active in the academies of Madrid, died after 1680. Isaac (Fernando) Cardoso dedicates to her his work Del Color Verde (Madrid, 1634); openly converted to…

Alonzo de Herrera, also known as Abraham Cohen de Herrera, is a kabbalist born in Spain and died in Amsterdam in 1631. According to D. L. de Barrios, he was descended from the famous Spanish captain…

Italian rabbi

Born and died in Rome, he was rabbi of the community from April 9, 1702 and one of the major figures of Italian Judaism of his time. Physician as much as rabbi, he intervened with the papal…

Samuel ben Joseph Hildesheimer is a rabbi of Frankfurt-on-the-Main from 1618. He reorganizes the Jewish community, whose administration had been disrupted by the troubles of Fettmilch, by adding to…

Rabbi, seventeenth century. Mentioned in 5414 of the Hebrew calendar (1654). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 29-2.

Hillel ben Naphtali Herz is a Lithuanian rabbi born in Brest-Litovsk in 1615 and died in Zolkiew on January 3, 1690. After studying under Hirsch Darshan, he went to Wilna, where he was a member of…

Lithuanian rabbi

Rabbi, 17th century. Mentioned in 5455 of the Hebrew era (1695). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 33-1.

Turkish Talmudist established in Safed in the seventeenth century, sometimes called Ḥiyya ben Gabriel. He is the author of « Seder Zemannim », a calendar covering the years 5435-64 of the Hebrew…

Rabbi of Safed, student of Solomon Sagis in Talmud and of Hayyim Vital in Kabbalah.

Dutch controversialist of the seventeenth century, author of a manual for use by missionaries among Jews, published in Leiden and Amsterdam in 1655, whose eight books had already appeared without the…

Russian Talmudist who lived in the second half of the seventeenth century, son-in-law of Joseph ben Löb, rabbi of Minsk. He revised the commentary of David ben Samuel on Rashi to the Pentateuch,…

Kabbalistic author who lived in Prague in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, son of Akiba and brother of Isaiah Horowitz. He wrote « Nishmat Shabbethai ha-Lewi », a kabbalistic treatise on the…

Lithuanian Talmudist of the seventeenth century, called R. Löb Zietiler. After directing several yeshivot in Germany, he was called to head the yeshiva of Minsk at the time when Jehiel Heilprin was…

Swiss Christian Hebraist born in Zurich on March 10, 1620, drowned in the Limmat on June 5, 1667. Trained in Oriental languages and theology in Geneva, Groningen and Leiden, he was appointed…

Christian Hebraicist born in Paris in 1686, died in that city on 31 October 1783. He entered the Congregation of the Oratory in 1704, disciple of Maclef whose anti-Masoretic biases he shared, he…

Russian rabbi of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, author of several exegetical and talmudic works: « Sefer Mayim Ḥayyim », commentary on the Pentateuch and the Five Megillot, published in…

Oriental rabbi of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, descendant of the Ibn Ezra family of Spain, trained in Salonique under the direction of Samuel di Modena, whose talmudic school he became…

Rabbi of Venice active in the second half of the seventeenth century, disciple of Joseph Escapa whose second part of « Rosh Yosef » he edited and prefaced in Smyrna in 1659. He also edited Salomon…

Rabbi of Fès, seventeenth century. Mentioned in 5431 of the Hebrew era (1671). Son of Menahem. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 102-4.

Printed many Hebrew works including an edition of the Talmud

Italo-Hebrew poet and scholar, notably trained by his elder brother Jacob. With Jacob he waged a literary war (1664-1667) against supporters of Sabbatai Tsvi and against Kabbalah. After wandering (as…

Rabbi, kabbalist and poet born in Ferrara, author of Mishnat Hasidim.

Pope from 1676 to 1689, born in Como in 1611, elected on 21 September 1676 and died on 12 August 1689. His sense of justice extended to the Jews: he forced Venice to release the Jewish prisoners…

Former converso, professor of metaphysics at Salamanca and then of medicine at Toulouse, he was imprisoned and tortured by the Inquisition before moving to Amsterdam around 1662 where he openly…

Born of Marrano parents in Portugal, physician trained in Salamanca, he was chief physician in Madrid under the name of Fernando. Having fled the Inquisition, he returned to Judaism in Venice (taking…

Hakham of the first Judeo-Portuguese congregation of Hamburg, then rabbi of the Sephardic community of Venice (after 1622). Student of Isaac Uzziel, he wrote in Spanish the Tesoro de Preceptos…

Jewish professor in England, 1600s

translator of the Pentateuch into Spanish

Polish rabbi and author, died in Posen in 1685. Student of R. Jonas Teomim and colleague of R. Moïse Zacuto, he was rabbi of Lutsk in Volhynia and then of Grodno, before being called in 1664 to Vilna…

Rabbi of the Portuguese community of Hamburg. The Jesurun family is well represented in Hamburg in the 17th century (also Joseph Jesurun, † 1660, heading the Talmud Torah).

Moralist and German author, active in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is the author of the « Leb Ṭob » (Prague, 1620), an edifying work in twenty chapters written in Judeo-German, which…

Rabbi and hazzan in Venice, born in 1621, son of a Kabbalist and grandson of Juda de Modena, whose "Bet Yehudah" he himself composed at the age of fourteen. Subject to persistent personal enemies in…

Founder of the Hariri family of kabbalists of the village of Harir (Erbil district, Kurdistan), he lived there in the first half of the 17th century. He is the author of the kabbalistic work «…

Polish rabbi of the 16th-17th centuries, grandson of Hirsch and master of Joël Sirkes, he pursued Talmudic studies in the yeshiva of Hayyim ben Samuel of Kremenetz before serving as rabbi in…

Bohemian Talmudist, died on May 30, 1624 in Prague, where he was assistant rabbi and magistrate of the community; son-in-law of the great rabbi of Prague Judah Löw ben Betsalel (the Maharal) and…

Rabbi born in Prague around 1650, active in Ofen (Buda). During the imperial assault of 1686 that retook the city from the Ottomans, his wife was killed, his son died in captivity at Raab and he…

Sephardic Talmudist who began the study of the Talmud in Salonique around 1630, fellow student of the chronicler David Conforte.

Jewish martyr

Rabbi of Salé in the 17th-18th centuries, he was the teacher (professor) of the rabbi-kabbalist Aharon ha-Sibʿoni. His entry appears in the reference onomastic dictionary of Abraham I. Laredo, "The…

Russian rabbi, active in the 16th and 17th centuries. He is the author of « Mattenot 'Ani », or « Ḳiẓẓur Mizraḥi », an annotated abridgement of the commentary of Elijah Mizraḥi on Rashi (Prague,…

Ottoman rabbi

Rabbi, physician and preacher of Padua, author of Pahad Yitzhaq on the ghetto attack.

Rabbi and physician of Ferrara, author of the talmudic encyclopedia Pahad Yitzhaq.

Chief rabbi of Tunis and rabbinical author, judge of the community.

Sephardi hakham and physician born in Amsterdam in the 17th century. Studied with Moses Zacuto and Baruch Spinoza under the direction of Saul Levi Morteira at Talmud Torah 'Ets Hayyim, where he later…

Isaac Wallich transcribed in Hebrew characters a collection of approximately 55 songs of his time (mostly German popular songs, twelve of which with Jewish theme). The 'Wallich manuscript' (early…

Spanish-Dutch poet

Polish rabbi of the 17th century, author of the "Be'er Heṭeb", a commentary on the Shulḥan 'Arukh, Ora'h Hayyim, based on later decisors (Amsterdam, 1708); he asserts in his preface to have written a…

Talmudist and Kabbalist, author of the Shenei Luchot ha-Berit (the Shelah), a monument of ethics and piety. He emigrated from Prague to the Land of Israel.

Mystic and Jewish healer considered the founder of Hasidism. His teaching emphasizes communion with God in ordinary existence, the elevation of « divine sparks » and joyful devotion accessible to…

Graduate of Padua, he practiced in Venice then went to Constantinople where he won the favor of the sultan and grand vizier Kara Mustapha. Physician and secretary to the Venetian envoy Carlo Ruzzini,…

Rabbi of Smyrna and Jerusalem, Rishon LeZion at the end of his life.

Polish talmudic and halakhic author, established in Krakow around 1620, son of a physician of Spanish origin. Around 1624, he composed « Yismaḥ Yisrael », an alphabetical compendium of the laws of…

Rabbi of Fès, active in the 5th century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Son of Eliahu. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 79-2.

talmudist, mathematician, and poet

Russian rabbi and author, apparently born in Temesvár and rabbi in Belzyce then in Lublin, contemporary of Samuel (Aaron) Keidanover; he perished during the persecutions of Chmielnicki in 1648. He is…

Czech rabbi

Bohemian printer and author, active in Prague in the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries. In 1691, he was working in Fürth on the "Sefer Me'irat 'Enayim", then moved to Prague where he worked for…

Christian theologian and German orientalist, born 26 November 1660 in Danzig and died 25 May 1741 in Berlin. After years of learned wandering in Holland and England, he settled in Lissa in 1686 then…

Sephardic hakham, rabbi of the Portuguese community in London from 1680.

Rabbi and av beit din of Venice, in correspondence with European scholars.

Rabbi of Alexandria (the Maharif), author of responsa.

Italian translator. He adapted and translated into Italian the « Miẓwot Nashim » (Precepts for Women) of Benjamin ben Abraham of Solnik, for the use of Italian Jewish women. The translation, very…

Polemicist writer of the 17th century, author in 1634 of a work in Latin against Christianity, entitled in Hebrew « Sha'ar Emet ». He borrows extensively from Menassé ben Israël, though Wolf…

Polish rabbi, died in Lublin in 1648. First rabbi and teacher at the yeshiva of this city, he was called to the rabbinate of Brest, where he received in 1631 R. Yom-Ṭob Lipmann Heller, who speaks of…

Talmudic author and rabbi of Istanbul in the 17th c. (Muzzal me-Esh).

Rabbi of Zante, died on that island in 1634, Jacob ben Israel Ha-Levi originated from Morea, in Greece, and studied in Salonica under Aaron Ḥaṣun before being called to the rabbinate of Zante, a…

German translator of the seventeenth century, Jacob ben Jérémie Mattithiah Ha-Lévi put into Judeo-German the « Leḳaḥ Ṭob » by Abraham Jagel (Amsterdam, 1675) and « Sefer ha-Yashar », under the title…

German scholar, active in the 17th–18th centuries, native to Fulda — whence his epithet « Jacob of Fulda » — but banished from that city and established in Schwerin. He wrote the « Tiḳḳun Sheloshah…

Talmudist of Gniezno active around 1650, son of a clerk of the Jewish community of Greater Poland who died in 1646, Jacob ben Naphtali lost his fortune and books in a fire before publishing in…

Talmudist and rabbi of Fes, born in the second half of the seventeenth century and died after 1750, Jacob ben Reuben ibn Zur enjoyed high reputation, cited as recognized authority by all Moroccan…

Author of liturgical poems; father of Maimon Bendahan (dayyan in Tetouan) and Moses Bendahan (av bet din in Meknès).

Member of the Cansino dynasty, which held from father to son the office of interpreter (lengua) of the Spanish governors of Oran in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries. Jacob Cansino translated from…

Talmudist of Constantinople, initiator of the Me'am Lo'ez in Judeo-Spanish.

Elder brother of Immanuel, a highly cultured poet (Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin, Italian, Portuguese). A fierce opponent of Sabbatianism; his published poems were said to have been destroyed by kabbalist…

Talmudist born in Fès, founded a yeshiva in Jerusalem, opponent of Sabbatianism.

Rabbi of Smyrna towards the end of the seventeenth century, correspondent of Ḥayyim Benveniste — author of the « Keneset ha-Gedolah » — of whom he seems to have succeeded in the rabbinate, Jacob ibn…

Great decisioner and paytan of Fès, head of the beth-din; responsa Mishpat ou-Tsedaka be-Yaakov.

Polish rabbi born in Krakow in 1680 and died in Offenbach on 16 January 1756, grandson of Joshua of Krakow, author of the « Maginne Shelomoh », Jacob Joshua ben Ẓebi Hirsch was chief rabbi of Lemberg…

Polish rabbi

Italian rabbi

Rabbi and Bohemian halakhist, author of the Shevut Yaakov and Minchat Yaakov responsa.

Rabbi born in Algeria, kabbalist and resolute opponent of Sabbatianism.

Catechist, philosopher and Italian kabbalist born in Monselice, active successively in Luzzara, Venice, Ferrara and Sassuolo in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Abraham Jagel was captured by…

Learned Italian active in Ferrara and then in Parma in the seventeenth century, where he was chief rabbi and head of the talmudic schools of the province, Gamaliel Jagel ben Hananya is the author of…

John Casimir was king of Poland (1648-68), elected with the help of Chmielnicki. He first forbade the Jewish presence on Cossack lands, but later authorized Jews forcibly converted under threat from…

Preacher and Galician masorite active in Lemberg in the seventeenth century, Jedidia (Gottlieb) ben Abraham Israël is the author of the « Ahavat ha-Shem », fifty aggadic expositions on Deuteronomy x.…

Rabbi of Nemirov in Russia, assassinated in May 1648 during the massacre perpetrated by the hordes of Chmielnicki: a Cossack had first hidden him hoping he would reveal where the Jews had hidden…

Born in Wittmund (Germany), he was a proofreader in the Hebrew printing house of Uri Phoebus (Feibush) Halevi in Amsterdam, which commissioned him to produce the first complete translation of the…

Jeremiah ben Jacob ben Israel Naphtali, Talmudist and German philanthropist died in Halberstadt before 1664, was parnas of the community as his father Jacob before him. His fortune, placed at the…

Scribe and Egyptian rabbi, student of Abraham ha-Lévi of Cairo.

Polish halakhic authority, author of the Bayit Hadash (Bach), a major commentary on the Tur. He was chief rabbi of Kraków.

Born in Casale Monferrato, rabbi of Florence for 34 years, honored with the title of Alluf Torah. Author of responsa and glosses on the Arba'ah Turim, as well as prayers composed after the…

Jonathan ben Jacob, Hungarian Talmudist and author, lived in Buda toward the end of the seventeenth century. Taken prisoner during the capture of the city by imperial troops in 1688, he was ransomed…

Apothecary at the botica of the Rua Larga in Coimbra, which supplied doctors at the university. His family is a converso family; his sister Maria was arrested by the Inquisition in 1666 for…

Rabbi

Author of the poetry collection « Mizmor Shir Yedidot u-Benot ha-Shir » (Mantua, 1659), poems on various subjects. The Jewish Encyclopedia also attributes to him a Hebrew translation of astronomy…

Marrano born in Lisbon, son of Abraham Athias (burned by the Inquisition in Cordova in 1667). Settled in Amsterdam around 1654, he founded there a Hebrew printing press from which came some 450…

German Talmudist probably born in Breslau around 1691, died in Bamberg on January 22, 1752. A pupil of his father-in-law Abraham Broda, he was first rabbi in Grabfeld, then rabbi of Bamberg…

Joseph ben Elimélekh of Torbin was a Polish scholar of the seventeenth century. He is the author of the Ben Tsiyyon (Amsterdam, 1690), a collection of mnemonic devices for the precepts, letter-header…

Jewish scholar and chronicler of Cairo in the 17th century. He completed on January 23, 1673 the Sefer Divrei Yosef, second part (preserved) of a chronicle reaching back to the creation of the world;…

Joseph ben Jacob of Pinczow, Lithuanian talmudist of the seventeenth century, was the student of Tsevi Hirsch, rabbi of Lublin. Rabbi in Kosowi, Russia, from 1687 onwards, he was called to Syeltzy,…

Joseph ben Samuel ha-Hazzan, called Joseph ha-Machbir, Karaite hakham of Halicz, Galicia, died in 1700; he had been the student of R. Nissim. He is the author of several works that remained…

Joseph ben Samuel ibn Rey, Italian rabbi, died prematurely in Venice on April 2, 1608; his epitaph suggests that his surname meant « son of the king ». He is the author of the Sefer Massoret, a…

Joseph ben Solomon, said Joseph Darshan of Posen, German preacher, was born in Posen in 1601 and died there in 1696. He studied at a young age in Biélaïa Tserkov, in Russia, where he witnessed, in…

Russian liturgist of the seventeenth century, born in Kobrin, in the gouvernement of Grodno. He is the author of « Ma'arakah Ḥadashah » (Frankfurt am Main, 1699), which brings together three seliḥot…

Rabbi of Turin in the 17th century. Encyclopaedia Judaica counts him, along with his son Daniel ben Joseph Calvo and Joseph ben Michael Ravenna, among the most important rabbis of the Turin community…

Rabbi and kabbalist of Livorno, opponent of Sabbatianism, author of Shomer Emunim.

Rabbi and Italian kabbalist, author of the work Or Boqer.

Jewish merchant and community leader of Meknès; according to tradition he financed Moulay Ismaïl's accession to the throne and was, with the Toledano, at the heart of the management of the sultan's…

Rabbi and judge of Salonika, author of Shulhan Gavoah.

Joseph Nazir ben Hayyim Moses ha-Levi, Palestinian rabbi, was born in Hebron around 1650 and probably died in Cairo in 1719. Trained by Moses Galante, he became rabbi of Hebron, from where he was…

Born in a family of Spanish Jews who fled the Inquisition and settled in Amsterdam; son of Isaac Penso, banker. Author in 1688 of "Confusión de confusiones," the first work describing the functioning…

Joseph Shallit ben Eliézer Richetti, Italian scholar born in Safed, in Palestine, directed in the second half of the seventeenth century a Talmudic school in Verona. He is the author of Hokhmat…

18th-century court Jew

17th Century Ascetic

Rabbi of Venice and Hebrew poet of the seventeenth century. He composed elegies on the death of Samuel Aboab and Moses Zacuto (Venice, 1694), as well as another, entitled "Kos Tanḥumin", on the death…

German Talmudist born in Lissa, in the province of Posen. Schoolmaster in Hamburg toward the end of the seventeenth century, he is the author of « 'Emeḳ Yehoshua' » (Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, 1699), a…

Dutch rabbi

Court Jew (Hofjude) and jeweler to the court of Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg (future King Frederick I of Prussia) in Berlin. Originally from Göttingen, he settled in Berlin after his marriage…

Av beth din of Algiers, decisioner, author of Beit Yehuda and the Minhagim of Algiers.

Chief Rabbi and preacher of Pfersee, in Bavaria, at the end of the 17th century. His sermons for Pesaḥ, Shavuot and Sukkot were published together with those of his father, Henoch ben Abraham, under…

Rabbi of Mantua, talmudist and polemicist, opponent of kabbalistic heterodoxy.

Polish rabbi

Jewish kabbalist and messiah claimant

Rabbi in Busk, in Poland (now Austrian Galicia), in the 17th century. He is the author of the « Leb Aryeh », a collection of homilies on the Pentateuch and the five Megillot, published in Wilmersdorf…

Rabbi and physician, born in Frankfurt am Main around the mid-seventeenth century and died in Mainz in 1714. He studied medicine and philosophy in Padua, where he obtained his doctorate in 1674, then…

Rabbi and preacher active in Pinsk in the second half of the 17th century. He went to settle in the Holy Land, where he died before 1681. Author of several works of morality and penance printed in…

Chief Rabbi (Hakham Bashi) of Constantinople, author of the Mishneh la-Melekh.

Hungarian talmudist of the 17th century, son of Ephraïm ben Jacob ha-Cohen, whose house in Ofen he left for Jerusalem in 1685. He edited the responsa of his father, "Sha'ar Efrayim", published in…

Portuguese cartographer, active in Palestine in the first half of the 17th century, author of a map of the Land of Israel written in Portuguese under the title « Relação do Sitio de Terra de Israel »…

Polish rabbi born in Wilna in 1614 and died in Cracow in 1676 (or 1679 according to other sources), Aaron Samuel ben Israël Kaidanover saw his library and manuscripts plundered by the Cossacks and…

Rabbi of Sardokupis, in Asia Minor, active in the early 17th century, author of the « Maḳor Baruk » (Smyrna, 1659), a collection of responsa following the order of the four Ṭurim. The work was…

Turkish rabbi and author, active in the first half of the 17th century, student of R. Aaron Ḥason, R. Aaron Sason and R. Isaac Franco, and principal teacher of the Portuguese yeshiva in Salonica,…

Poet and polemicist born in Safi, Morocco, towards the end of the seventeenth century, related through his mother to the Bédersi family of Provence. Orphaned early but possessed of sufficient…

Polish physician of the 17th century, author of « Yerushat Mosheh » (2 vol., Frankfurt-on-Main and Wilmersdorf, 1677), a medical work in Judeo-German describing remedies for various illnesses, and of…

Polish rabbi of the seventeenth century, died in 1713 at an advanced age; his name indicates that he was born in Kalisz, Poland, or that he exercised the rabbinate there. He is the author of "Sha'are…

Turkish Talmudist of the seventeenth century, died between 1696 and 1698, mentioned from 1650 as a reputed dayan and student of Joseph Trani. Known for the flexibility of his decisions — he notably…

Polish Talmudist, born in Krotoschin around the mid-17th century, son-in-law of Abraham Abele Gombiner and rabbi of Kutno. He drafted the « Ḥuḳḳat Torah », annotations to the Shulchan Aruch in four…

Rabbi of Fes, active in the 5th century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 80-1.

Author and poet, active in the second half of the 16th century and at the beginning of the 17th, author of the « Ḥag ha-Pesaḥ » (Cracow, 1597), commentary on the Haggada of Pessa'h completed with…

German Talmudist, born circa 1700 and died in Prague on May 24, 1774, where he presided for more than forty years over an important yeshiva. When Empress Maria Theresa decreed on December 18, 1744,…

Polish rabbinic author, active in Kalisz in the 17th century. He wrote the « Oraḥ Mishor » (Sulzbach, 1692), a commentary on Moses Isserlès' « Darkhé Mosheh » on the Yoré Dé'a, then a second work of…

Talmudist and German poet, active in Cracow in the seventeenth century. He composed an elegy, "Ḳinah" (around 1650), on the one hundred twenty thousand Jews who died in the Khmelnytsky riots in…

Polish Talmudist, born in 1626 and died in 1666 in Cracow, son-in-law of Abraham Chemiesch. A preacher for many years in the synagogues of Cracow, he was reputed for his erudition; his only surviving…

Rabbi and South American Talmudist of the seventeenth century, probably son of Simon Lagarto of Amsterdam. Having gone to Brazil young, he was around 1680 ḥakham of the Jews of Tamarica and the…

Bohemian Talmudist, born in 1678 and died in Prague on 9 October 1712, specialist in Masorah and the rules of writing Torah scrolls, hence his name. Versed also in profane sciences and Kabbalah, he…

Oriental rabbi and talmudist, died in 1674, first rabbi in Manissa, Turkey, then called, already elderly, as judge of civil affairs in Smyrna. In 1665, when the movement of Shabbetaï Tsevi reached…

German glossator and theologian, son of Isaac Lévi, active in the early seventeenth century. In his "Amarot Ṭehorot", published by his son Saül, he defines and explains in alphabetical order the…

Judeo-German author of the seventeenth century, probably son of printer Abraham Lemberger of Prague. He is the author, in Judeo-German, of the "Ein Hübsch Göttlich Büchel" (Prague, n.d.), a…

According to tradition, this is a rabbi and his six sons — or a master and six of his disciples — buried in Safi since ancient times; it is unknown when they lived and died. It is told that, when the…

One of the first Jewish settlers of New Amsterdam, probably born in Amsterdam, died in 1680. Arrived in New Netherland in 1654, likely a refugee from Brazil, he refused the tax imposed on Jews exempt…

Rabbi and preacher in Prague in the second half of the 17th century, died in that city in 1709. He is the author of « Mattat Yah », a collection of sermons on the Pentateuch stopping at Numbers…

English theologian and Christian Talmudist born in Stoke-upon-Trent in 1602, died in Ely in 1675, member of Christ's College Cambridge and, from 1650 until his death, principal of St Catherine Hall.…

Russian rabbi of the seventeenth century, native of Brest-Litovsk. After studying in the yeshivot of Lublin and Kraków, he was called to the rabbinate of Rossiena, in the government of Kovno. He is…

Russian rabbi probably born in Pinczow, in the Kielce governorate, Poland, around 1630, died in Brest-Litovsk in 1714, grandson of Joël Sirkes and son-in-law and student of David ben Samuel ha-Lévi.…

Polish rabbi born in Cracow around 1620, died in the same city in 1671. Called early to the rabbinate of Vienna, he then goes to Przemyśl, in Galicia, before becoming in 1665 rabbi of his native…

Rabbi of the second half of the 17th century, probably born in Wilna, whose father Ephraim b. Jacob ha-Cohen had taken refuge in Buda during the Cossack uprising of 1655; died in the Holy Land after…

Bohemian scholar who lived in Prague in the middle of the 17th century, secretary of Simon Spira, chief rabbi of Prague. He publishes, under the title "Milḥamah be-Shalom", a narrative of the siege…

Spanish poet who lived in Amsterdam in the 17th century. He is among the poets who celebrated in 1655 the martyrdom of Abraham Nuñez Bernal, his elegies appearing in the collection « Elogios »…

Palestinian scholar, masorete and midrashist, lexicographer and poet, died after 1608 in Jerusalem, orphaned in childhood and remaining throughout his life in poverty and illness. Settling in…

Physician, planter and Jewish merchant settled in the province of Maryland in the middle of the 17th century, born in Lisbon and died between September 24, 1665 and May 31, 1666. Having left Portugal…

Jew, perhaps a Marrano, of Spanish origin, established in Smyrna. He is the author of an apology in Spanish directed against a monk of Seville and an interpretation of the « seventy weeks » of…

Karaite writer and bibliographer, born in Lutsk at the end of the 17th century and died, according to Firkovitch, in Chufut-Kale, Crimea, or, according to another source, in Lutsk in March 1766.…

Dutch scholar and editor, member of a family of printers active in Amsterdam in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He publishes in Judeo-German several translations from Dutch, including an…

German Protestant theologian, born in Pforzheim in February 1653, died in Giessen in September 1719. Professor at the University of Giessen from 1689 onwards, he published notably a Synopsis…

Rabbi of Fez, 17th century. Mentioned in 5384 of the Hebrew era (1624). Son of Saadia. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 82-1.

Rabbi of Azaouia, 17th century. Mentioned in 5457 of the Hebrew era (1697). Son of Haim. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 81-1.

Rabbi of Fès, active in the 5th century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 81-2.

Rabbi of Fès, seventeenth century. Mentioned in 5388 of the Hebrew era (1628). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 81-4.

Rabbi, active in the fifth century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 82-3.

Rabbi of Tafilalet, active in the 5th century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Son of Yosef. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 82-4.

Rabbi of Debdou, active in the 5th century of the Hebrew calendar (1640–1739). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 83-1.

Rabbi of Fès, active in the 5th century of the Hebrew era (1640–1739). Son of Mordekhay. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 82-3.

Talmudist and methodologist of Livorno, author of the classic Yad Malachi.

Rabbi of Rhodes in the seventeenth century, brother-in-law of Hezekiah de Silva, author of « Peri Ḥadash ». He publishes « Malki ba-Ḳodesh » (Salonike, 1749), novellae on the laws of Passover, as…