• Abraham ben Judah ha-Levi Minz was an Italian rabbi who flourished at Padua in the first half of the 16th century. Minz studied chiefly under his father...
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    which time he had a great number of pupils, among whom were his son Abraham Minz, and the latter's son-in-law Meir Katzenellenbogen. In a dispute he had...
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  • Minz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Abraham ben Judah Minz (c. 1440–1520), Italian rabbi Judah ben Eliezer ha-Levi Minz (c. 1405–1508)...
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  • entered the yeshiva of Judah Minz, whose granddaughter, Hannah, he afterwards married. He succeeded his father-in-law, Abraham Minz, in the chief rabbinate...
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    Cremona (d. 1390 in Padua), writer and preacher Judah Minz (c. 1405–1508), Italian rabbi Abraham Minz (c. 1440–1520), Italian rabbi Andrea Riccio (c. 1470...
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    Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (Hebrew: ר׳ אַבְרָהָם בֶּן מֵאִיר אִבְּן עֶזְרָא‎ ʾAḇrāhām ben Mēʾīr ʾībən ʾEzrāʾ, often abbreviated as ראב"ע‎; Arabic: إبراهيم...
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  • Abraham bar Ḥiyya ha-Nasi (Hebrew: ר׳ אַבְרָהָם בַּר חִיָּיא הַנָשִׂיא; c. 1070 – 1136 or 1145), also known as Abraham Savasorda, Abraham Albargeloni...
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    Abraham ibn Daud (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם בֶּן־דָּוִד הַלֵּוִי אִבְּן דָּאוּד, romanized: ʾAvrāhām ben-Dāvīd halLēvī ʾībən Dāʾūd; Arabic: ابراهيم بن داود, romanized: ʾIbrāhīm...
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  • Luria Malka Lifshitz Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen Judah Minz Abraham Minz HaLevi Kranch Hannah Minz Yitzchak Liwa of Ferrara Livo Liwa Saul Wahl Katzenellenbogen...
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  • course (Judah Minz, Responsa, No. 13; Grätz, Gesch. 2d ed., ix. 518). Pollak had a further bitter controversy, with Minz's son Abraham, regarding a legal...
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    Badia Polesine in Piedmont. Moses was a friend of Leon Modena. Abraham ben Judah ha-Levi Minz was an Italian rabbi who flourished at Padua in the first half...
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    Hasdai ben Abraham Crescas (Catalan: [həzˈðaj ˈβeɲ ʒuˈða ˈkɾeskəs]; Hebrew: חסדאי קרשקש; c. 1340 in Barcelona – 1410/11 in Zaragoza) was a Spanish-Jewish...
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    Man: A Philosophy of Judaism is a work on Jewish philosophy by Rabbi Dr. Abraham Joshua Heschel. Heschel saw the work's title as a paradoxical formula,...
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    Narbonne Isaac ben Sheshet Hasdai Crescas Joseph Albo Elia del Medigo Judah Minz Isaac Abarbanel Judah Leon Abravanel Yemenite: Natan'el al-Fayyumi Mansur...
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    1050–1120), Judah Halevi (c. 1075–1141), Joseph ibn Tzaddik (died 1149), and Abraham ibn Ezra (c. 1090–1165). Nevertheless, the analogy was already in use by...
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    Narbonne Isaac ben Sheshet Hasdai Crescas Joseph Albo Elia del Medigo Judah Minz Isaac Abarbanel Judah Leon Abravanel Yemenite: Natan'el al-Fayyumi Mansur...
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    the Karaite by the name of Abu al-Surri ben Zuṭa, who is referred to by Abraham ibn Ezra, in his commentary on Exodus 21:24 and Leviticus 23:15). In the...
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    given by most Arabic authorities who give his date of birth as 832. But Abraham ben Hasdai, quoting the biographer Sanah ibn Sa'id al-Kurtubi ("Orient...
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    died in Venice in 1508 and was buried in Padua next to its rabbi, Judah Minz. Owing to the destruction of the Jewish cemetery there during the Siege of...
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    preserved for the ages by a translation into Latin in the year 1150 by Abraham ibn Daud and Dominicus Gundissalinus, who was the first official director...
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    Narbonne Isaac ben Sheshet Hasdai Crescas Joseph Albo Elia del Medigo Judah Minz Isaac Abarbanel Judah Leon Abravanel Yemenite: Natan'el al-Fayyumi Mansur...
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    Judaism from its dependence on the East, to the great joy of the caliph, as Abraham ibn Daud says (Sefer ha-Kabbalah p. 68). Ibn Abi 'Usaybi`a writes of him:...
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    for about a decade recorded in his academic relations with Yehudah Minz and his Minz Yeshivah Academy of Talmudic studies. Also in Padua, between 1481...
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    Narbonne Isaac ben Sheshet Hasdai Crescas Joseph Albo Elia del Medigo Judah Minz Isaac Abarbanel Judah Leon Abravanel Yemenite: Natan'el al-Fayyumi Mansur...
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  • astronomer/astrologer. He was born at Bagnols in Languedoc, France. According to Abraham Zacuto and others, he was the son of Gerson ben Solomon Catalan. As in...
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    the shrine of Abraham in Kefar Avaraham (aka Barza) near Damascus, and several other shrines dedicated to Elijah throughout Syria. Abraham has been associated...
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  • bills of divorce. Meshullam also edited and published the responsa of Moses Minz (Kraków, 1617).  This article incorporates text from a publication now in...
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    to be questioned. Called upon, about 1238, for support by Solomon ben Abraham of Montpellier, who had been excommunicated by supporters of Maimonides...
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    born in Livorno. The name Benamozegh means "son of Amazigh". His father (Abraham) and mother (Clara), Moroccan Jewish natives of Fez, Morocco, died when...
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    Narbonne Isaac ben Sheshet Hasdai Crescas Joseph Albo Elia del Medigo Judah Minz Isaac Abarbanel Judah Leon Abravanel Yemenite: Natan'el al-Fayyumi Mansur...
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