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Delmedigo, Elijah ben Eliezer

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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Cretan rabbi and Talmudist; flourished in the second half of the sixteenth and in the first of the seventeenth century in Candia. He was widely known in his time as a Talmudic scholar. A halakic decision of his exists in Joseph Samega's "Derek Yemin." He was the father of the famous philosopher and writer Joseph Solomon Delmedigo.

Bibliography:
  • Nepi-Ghirondi, Toledot Gedole Yisrael, p. 6;
  • Geiger, Nachgelassene Schriften, 3:5.
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Bibliography Information
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Delmedigo, Elijah ben Eliezer'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​d/delmedigo-elijah-ben-eliezer.html. 1901.
 
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