ABRAHAM DE METRARGUES
thirteenth century. In liis poem. "Tiie Fliitning iSwortl," AliriUmni Hechushi recognizes his ]ii>e(ie till(111. Zunz IJt.Tatiiri^esch." p. .50(1) nienticins ii
sician who lived in Marseilles, l-'raiiee, tirst i|uarter of the tifteentli century.
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olthc iiiiiiic of Abraham of Carpentras. He ideiililies him with Abraham ben Isaac, siirnanied Don Abraham of .MonlpelUer, one of the [Jarlizansof the anti-.Maimonist Al)l)a Mari of Lune), an<l tiiinks lie is the author of the introduction to Il)n Galiirol's "Azliarol." wliieli were recited on the lirst and second nights of Shabu'ot (Pentecost) in the commu-
tioned in conimercial and official town for the years 140:>-ia.
liluri,Mcal pi jet
.
liiiii.KxiK.vrnr
from Gomfs Dh'an, In Mimats-ichrift, Litcrututyisch. p. 500; Uross, (ItMia JuS.
ii
llic
113 Sip (• Kuli-liiH
a collection of ani.Juilieo (Jermau prose and verse, pub-
mal fables ill lished at Verona Bnir.inHRAPiiY: mill,
jiiii.
1.
li
"^
,
in lo'io. Btidl. So. iX'J;
Stelnsclinelder, Cnl.
Kilrsl,
9.
G.
ABRAHAM MEDINA. See Medi.n.v. AiiU.vM ABRAHAM MEIR (called MEIRI). See Jli.ini .Vr.uAiiAM ABRAHAM BEN MEIR ABI ZIMKA. See AniZiMiiv Zimkai, .i:iihm ABRAHAM BEN MEIR IBN EZRA. ! IiiN KzK Ml Ml ABRAHAM BEN MEIR IBN KAMNIAL. See KwiMM,. ,i;kiii N ABRAHAM BEN MEIR HA-KOHEN II.
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I<;iblii and byiiiii wrilrr nf llir end i>t the ele eiilli Century; lived probably at Speyer. He was a col league of Itiislii, wilh whom he carried on a learned correspondence. In UMIti he compo.sed an elegy (kiim/i) on the persecutions of the Jews, of which he was an eye-witness. llnii.KMiiiAPilv MIrtmel, Or liii-Uiijiirim. No. llirt; Land.sliiilli,
niniuiU hil-ltnKlitli,
'.1
p.
.'i
/.uiiz.
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ABRAHAM BEN MEIR HA-LEVI
EP-
See El'STKlN, AUUAIIAM BKN Meiii ua-
I.IM
ABRAHAM BEN MEN'AHEM MANAS-
SEH BACHARACH. II
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Bibliography: tiriitz,
.Mliluul.
i>i
liii-ll<iiniiin,
and As a
Judaism about
()15.
lilliU'ilhcca
(Icsch. d.
Judcn,
Patrum,
ed. Leyden,
xll.
285;
v. 20, 3»».
ABRAHAM MONSON. See MoxsoN, AbraABRAHAM OF MONTPELLIER Commen:
tator on the gieatir part of the 'ralniud.
His coinmentaries on Hullin and Ketubot are quoted by Jacob ben Moses of Baguols, who wrote between llioT-til, and by Jlenaliem di Lonzano, who lived in the second half of the si.teentli century. He has been mistaken for the father of the celebrated antiJlaimonist Solomon ben Alirahani of .Montpellier, who nourished in the middle of the thirteenth century. Isaac de Lattes. in his "Sha'are Zion " (ed. Buber, p. 42) names Kabbi Abraham among the scholars of the generation succeeding Solomon, of whose father he sjieaks simply as "Abraham," with.
out the
title
of rabbi.
11iiiiiii(;kapiiv lie l/ittes. Sha'are ZUm, ed. Buber, p. 42; Ni'ulMiuur, ill Ilcc. £t. Juices, 1884, xvll. 3J; Uruss, (Jallia
Judaica,
p. 32ti.
L. G.
ABRAHAM BEN MORDECAI FARISSOL. See KMit^MU, .i;i:llM N MoliOli M, ABRAHAM BEN MORDECAI GALANTE. Mokihi m. Seei;M.Nri. .ki;mim ABRAHAM BEN MORDECAI HA-LEVI: i;i
i:i
n
-Vn Kgypliiiii niblii of the end of the seventeenth cenliirv. In lli'.ll he ediud at Venice his fallier'.s responsa, "Darke No'am," adding a treatise of his
circumcision, which, however, met with a great deal of opposition from contemporary rabbis. .Vbraham's own colled ion of responsa, "Ginnat AVenidim " (Garden of Hosesi arranged in the same ord<T as the four "Turiin." and his treatise on divorce, " VaVr N<lib" (Illuminator of the I'ath), were published at t'onstanlinopli' in 17H>-1S. by his son in law Hayyim ben Moses Tavila, physician in ordinary to the sultan. .
BiHi.ioiiRArnv: Aziilal, Shcm Im-O'ri/olim, Itztir Iia-Srfarim, pp. 119, 213.
Nu. IHT.
L. O.
s,v.
neiijarob,
W.
lirst
in I.ViM-tlO, in praise
Bini.iiiiauriiv
He
Sinai.
century,
si.xtli
ham
llie
edition of llieZohar, pulilished at .Mantua of wliieli he wrote verses wliieh Wire printed in the prefair'. He has ln-eii frei|iu>iitly nilsiaken for Aiuiaimm . ioiioit iir.N Mksiu i.i.am, mil hor of several philosophical treatises. tile
to
Mount
L. G.
ABRAHAM BEN MESHULLAM OF MOSENA llelirew scholar; one of correctors of
in
own on
p. 4IM.
L, Ci.
STEIN.
a monastery on born about the close of the lived
Jew, receiving the name Abraham, by which he was subsequently known.
of
In
Christian, he spent his life in penance and prayer. Doubts as to the Christian dogma grew in his mind, and, after a prolonged struggle, he deserted his cell in the monastery on Sinai and wandered through the desert into Palestine, tinally reaching Tiberias. Here he submitted to circumcision and became a
K.
ABRAHAM MANELES. Sec B.ciiR,vcn. Ann Ml AM ABRAHAM (ALLXJF) MASS ARAN. Sec JIassm; , .ki: m ABRAHAM BEN MATTATHIAS Compiler
tliat
was became a convert
Abraham
E.lra<t
ISfC, p. .'it:.': Zuuz, diiU-ii, p. (iOT.
men-
is
who
the Old, and by others simply Abraham ("(jii'lli'i Judaica," p. GOT). The unfortunate poet Isiuic ben Abraham Gorni, who was at Carpentras at the .same time, speaks of Abraham Jlaliiki in the higliest terms. "Abraham," he said, "will intervene in favor of the sinners of Sodom [CarpentRusj, where there arc not ten righteous." .lonie
He
documents of
W. M.
eounly of Venaissin. and are still Sephardic liturgy. Gro.ss. however, with more reason, altributesthis|)oem to Abraham Malalii, who
by
ABRAHAM MINZ. See MiNZ. AiiiiAiiAM. ABRAHAM THE MONK A Palestinian friar
nilies of the aiieii'iil
culled
.V phyduring the
BiBLIonnAniv: Barthelemy, Les MMecins d JlarveiUe, Her. £' Juivca. vll. HH Gross, Oallia Judaica, p. .'Wi}.
in the is
Abraham ha-Levi Abraham ben Mosea
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ABRAHAM MORPURGO. ABRAHAM BEN MOSES
I'rinlir
.iihI
B.
See ^Mourriioo,
(SCHEDEL):
ii'initor for the press;
nourished in
I'lau'iiealiout IHoo. Atindiam niel wilh some succesii He Iraiislaled the Hook of Kzekiel into ill authorship
Judieo-tiernian rime, and printed it in his own establishment in llMi. He shows liimseK to liave been
