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Jacob ben Mordecai
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
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German scholar; flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A native of Fulda, he was generally called "Jacob of Fulda"; but he was banished from that town and settled at Schwerin. He wrote: (1) "Tiḳḳun Sheloshah Mishmarot" (Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 1691), prayers to be recited in the three divisions of the night, for which the Zohar was his main source. This work was translated into Judæo-German by the author's wife, Laza, who added a preface (Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1692). Benjacob ("Oẓar ha-Sefarim," p. 669), following Wolf ("Bibl. Hebr." , Nos. 1338 et seq.), attributes the authorship to Laza. (2) "Shoshannat Ya'aḳob" (Amsterdam, 1706; Leghorn, 1792), a treatise on chiromancy, physiognomy, and astrology.
Bibliography:
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. cols. 462, 1239;
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 1:305, where he is mentioned under Fuld.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Jacob ben Mordecai'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/j/jacob-ben-mordecai.html. 1901.
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Jacob ben Mordecai'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/j/jacob-ben-mordecai.html. 1901.
