Jedidiah Norzi

male, deceased (1626)
Jedidiah Solomon ben Abraham Norzi was a Rabbi and exegete born at Mantua. He studied under Moses Cases, and received his rabbinical ordination in...
David Tebele Scheuer

David Tebele Scheuer

male
Rabbi David Tebele Scheuer was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1712. He was one of the outstanding students of the "Shev Yaakov", Rabbi Jacob Cohen in...
Aryeh Leib Ben Asher Gunzberg

Aryeh Leib Ben Asher Gunzberg

male, deceased (1785)
Rabbi Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg. At one time Gunzberg was Rabbi in Pinsk, and then later founded a yeshivah in Minsk. Here however he engaged...
Naphtali Cohen

Naphtali Cohen

male, deceased (1718)
Naphtali Cohen (1649-1718) was a Russo-German rabbi and kabalist born in Ostrowo in the Ukraine. He belonged to a family of rabbis in Ostrowo,...

Joseph Escapa

male, deceased (1662)
Joseph Escapa (ca. 1572-1662) served in the rabbinate of Smyrna. He was probably born at Uskup, European Turkey, after which place he is named. At...

Eliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi

male, deceased (1585)
Eliezer (Lazer) ben Elijah Ashkenazi (Hebrew: אליעזר בן אליהו אשכנזי) was a Talmudist, rabbi, physician, and many-sided scholar. Though of a German...

Elijah Spira

male, deceased (1712)
Elijah Spira (alternatively, "Shapira", Hebrew: אליהו שפירא) was son of Benjamin Wolf Spira. He was rabbi at Tiktin, and afterward preacher a...

Reuben ben Hoshke

male, deceased (1673)
Reuben Hoshke (Sofer) (Hebrew: אברהם ראובן הכהן סופר) was a Kabalist and rabbi of Prague. "Hoshke," his father's name, is a Polish diminutive...

Abraham ben Saul Broda

male, deceased (1717)
Abraham ben Saul Broda, a Bohemian Talmudist ("Talmudforscher"). Saul Broda sent his son to Cracow to pursue his Talmudic studies with Rabbi Isaac...

Ishtori Haparchi

male, deceased (1366)
Rabbi Ishtori Haparchi (1280-1366,) was a 14th century Jewish scholar. He was the author of the 1322 travelogue "Sefer Kaftor Vaferech" ("Book of...