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Terni, Mattathiah Nissim ben Jacob Israel
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
Italian rabbi and poet; flourished in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was rabbi at Florence, Urbino, Pesaro, and Sinigaglia. He wrote: "Sefat Emet," halakic decisions (Leghorn, 1797); "Midbar ba-'Arabah," on the marriage laws (Florence, 1807 [?]); "Midbar Mattanah,"responsa, in four parts (ib. 1810; the appendix, in Italian, was published at Urbino). A volume of poems by him is entitled "No'am we-Ḥobelim we-Derek Emunah" (Geiger, "Zeit. Jüd. Theol." 3:286, No. 44).
Bibliography:- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 3:418;
- Mortara, Indice, p. 64;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 1684.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Terni, Mattathiah Nissim ben Jacob Israel'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/t/terni-mattathiah-nissim-ben-jacob-israel.html. 1901.