Samuel de Medina

male, deceased (1589)
Rabbi Samuel ben Moses de Medina, was a Talmudist and author; born 1505; died October 12, 1589, at Salonica. He was principal of the Talmudic...

Jacob Joshua Falk

male, deceased (1756)
Jacob Joshua Falk (also: Yaakov Yehoshua ben Tzvi Hirsch, or Yaakov Yehoshua Falk - see Note on the name "Joshua Falk".) 1680 - January 16, 1756)...

Isaac Ha-Kohen Rapoport

male
Isaac ben Judah ha-Kohen Rapoport was a rabbi who lived in the Land of Israel, of the eighteenth century; born and died at Jerusalem, a pupil of R....

Aaron Alfandari

male, deceased (1774)
Aaron ben Moses Alfandari was a Talmudic writer born in Smyrna. He emigrated to Palestine in his old age, where he met Azulai. He was the author of...
Yoel Sirkis

Yoel Sirkis

male, deceased (1640)
Bayit Chadash, Rabbi Sirkis's best known work, is a major commentary on the "Arba'ah Turim" of Jacob ben Asher. The work presents and elucidates...
Yaakov Reischer

Yaakov Reischer

male, deceased (1733)
Jacob ben Joseph Reischer (Bechofen) (1661-1733) was an Austrian rabbi and halakhist born at Prague. He was the son of R. Joseph, author of "Gib'ot...

Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi

male, deceased (1690)
Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi was a Lithuanian rabbi. He was born at Brest-Litovsk in 1615; died at Zolkiev January 3 1690. After he had studied under...

Gedaliah Ibn Yahya ben Joseph

male
Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph (Hebrew: גדליה בן יוסף אבן יחייא) was a talmudist born at Imola, Italy. He studied in the yeshibah at Ferrara under Ja...

Joshua ben Israel Benveniste

male, deceased (1668)
Joshua ben Israel Benveniste (c. 1590-c. 1668) was the brother of Chaim Benveniste, and a disciple of Joseph Trani. He was a physician and rabbi at...

Joshua Höschel ben Joseph

male, deceased (1648)
Joshua Höschel ben Joseph was a Polish rabbi; born in Wilna about 1578; died at Cracow August 16, 1648. In his boyhood he journeyed to Przemysl, G...