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Abraham Abraham
encyclopedia
Tin: .n:visii
119
This is in the nature of printed in Salonk-ii in 16.")"). siCDncorduuce lotlie works of the Ai.mroniMi, or later
Abraliamo
casuists.
ibn Sahl ibn Shoshan
Abraham was
nani(..
[tnii.iiiiiitAriiv: StclnwhiiPlilcr, Cat. .Mii-hacl, (tr lut-IInmit"iy Ni>. ~'A.
Ilmll.
N'os.
tit!):!,
('.ill:.';
ABRAHAM SANCI. See S.xci (Sanciii), Aim MIAM. ABRAHAM BEN SAUL BRODA. See
S mi,
Ml M A ABRAHAM SCHRENZEL. S,c M'.iPdUT, Ami Ml M ABRAHAM HA-SEPHARDI lUhrew poet I!i:ciii ,
i;i'
I'.i!
I!
anil
Ilr
ril iiiilisl.
uas
ralilii
.ilaiii
- il
l")'-il.
Though
not a Karuile. lie has been cicililnl with the authorship of the seven pcienis of I'liur lines eiiili uliieh precede the dilVeniit sections of the Xineteentli I'sidni, printed in tlie Kaniite prayer-book for use during the seven days of I'assover.
Bibliography
Zunz, RUwi.
p. 101
Idem, S. P.
p.
Ml. (!.
ABRAHAM BEN SHABBETHAI COHEN OF ZANTE(eall.d aUo Abraham Cohen I'liysieiaii
in
i7-'!l.
Rofe) and poet; bmii in Crele in 1(170; died 1I(. must have ninoved al an early jieriod
lie studied uiidei- llezekiali Manoiili ProHe was the author vencal, a ])hysician of Veidiia. of aiioctical paraphrase of the P.salnis. which he ])ul)lished. to.i^etber with oilier poems of his own, under the title "Kehunat Abraham" (Abraham's Priesthood), Venice, 1710. A speeinicn of this work, now (piite rare, wasreprinled in the ]ieriodieal " Ila-
to Zante.
iii. 1, and in "liiUkure ha iltim," v. Hii. While he shows a good command of the Hebrew language, his poetry is not of a high order.
>Ieassef,"
Biiu,iof;UAPnv
DelUzsrh. ^lo'
fifsrhirhte
fkr JUflisrhni
I'lunii, y. 74; Slelll.Hilillelller, C<1(. lioiil. vol. 7(Hi Or ha-ltii!/iihn, Nu. 'J^i^K
e Siiai.om. Ac.ha ABRAHAM SHALOM. ABRAHAM SHALOM BEN ISAAC BEN >.
M. lU N l>c
III
N
.ll
umi
Sii.^i.o.M, AiiK.-
IlKN S.VMfKI,.
ABRAHAM SHAMSULI. Sic Ann Ml M ABRAHAM BEN SHEM-JOB writer;
bmn
probably
in tin' iiiidilli-
.Marseilles,
al
of
ubi
SuAMsri.t,
Medical
lliirlecnlh ceiilury. his I'.ilher. .Sliem Tob
iIh'
ri.
He Isaac of Tiwlosa. |iraelised medicine. thor of u medical handbocik HSIST "J-na
l)en
(
mVp)
in ninety (ine
paragraphs.
(
)f this,
is
au-
11311
two manu-
scripts are ill the I5ibliolliei|ue Nalionale de Paris (Ilebr. .MSS. Nos. Ib'^l, IIH','), in which the scribe
adds after the name of the author the eulogy
yp -n
("(iod ])re,serve him "). He is also called " .bndiani the Hebrew of Tortosa." by nonafos lionlil Astrnc. the Hebrew translalor of llie " l.iber Piaeticie" of Zidirawi. and ".Umilmin .Iiidieiis Torluosensis," by Simon of (bnoa, also known as a medical writer. He studied probably in Italy, as the last chiinler of his handbook shows the inlluenee of the Ilalian physician (ieiililc Abraham ben Shem Tot) assisted in the translation of "Seiapion ile Simplicibiis (prinled in I7:tt, and alsolninslated chapter twenlyI.iber Pniclicie." under the special title el(.'ht of the " l.iber Serviloris." It Irealsof the preparation of simple mnlieamenls. The Hebrew Ininslation is lost. buHhe I. Ill in version still exists under the title " I.ibir Sirviloris Prapiiralione .Mediiinarum !sini|ilicinm, Iranslaliisii Simonu.Ianucnsi, iuterprete I
.WVUIde
S.
ABRAHAM BEN SHEM-TOB BIBAGO. .i;uMii r.iN Siii.m Toll. ABRAHAM BEN SHERIRA (JaoninPuni
See
l!ii;iai.
bedita
succe.s.sor to
Uabbi .Joseph bar Abba, from
He was inclined to mysticism, and was reputed to have the abilil.y for predicting future events by watchin.ir the motion of the branches of trees. He is quoted in 'Aruk, «nb riidiccnO811) to 828.
A. K.
ABRAHAM SHMOILOVICH
A
Lithuanian
The llonorabh! Sir -VbraTnrisk," w ho flourished at the end
mercbant kimwii also as
"
liani, the .lew of of thesi.xteenth and the beginning of theseveuteenlh century. His name tigures in the books of the lirest-Litovsk custom-house for the year 1.W3 as an exporter of lumber and cereals. On May IK, 1.59."), .Vlcxander Prouski, the warden of Troki, leased, for a term of three years, to the "Noble SirBurkatzki " and the " Honorable Sir Abraham Shmoilovieh " of Tnrisk a feudal estate in the district of Vladimir,
with its population and all ilsappurtenanees. Even the resident .lews and the income derived from them were inchulcd in Ibis list. The lessees alsoac(|uired the right to collect all the revenues, ami in fact enjoyed (he privilegesof full manorial lords. On May 27, l.")!t."), the Prince and Princess Grigori Sangiishko leased to Shmoilovieh and to his wife, Rikia Odinna. the village of Kosliar and others adjoining, and six years later, Aug. 2i), ItiUl, still other towns and hamlets. liini.iofiRArnY: Archciiiiratichcski Slmrnik,
HAM
II
i7ti.
M.
iltituikl .v.;
See
his
Mirlmel,
1).
JUDAH BEN SAMUEL.
1471.
Simon merely added
BlHLKHiiiAPiiY: Niniliauer, In lifv. Et. Jiiivr», v. ir>; Ptelnsclnieider. J/ci)r. Vehcrs. pp. 657, 973; Gross, Oallia Judaiea, p.
L. G.
.ludito," Venice,
the actual translator and
Vn:miiniin
Arlihtv
Itificstii
i
Iios:<ii^
elc, Nus.
67.!, 7111,
yailiji.fi,
iv.
3t!0:
Pfiiii-
i., piirts II., tx., and vol. 1., part vi., p. :>8 7ia, 7;;4, SI. Petersburg,
Iiimtnit<sii, vol.
)'i(i/"-Z(i/'i('//i.*i
IstlO.
n. R.
ABRAHAM SHOFEf (BEN SAMUEL)
A
Kaiaile ll iider; livid in Pnhiiid at the end ot the seventeenth century. He was a favorite of King.lohn Sobieski (U^1-'"'V and lar.uely instrumental in tin' foundation of Karaite colonies in the nei.irhborhood of Lemberg. (ialici;i. .Vecording to a lb-brew manuscript concerning the Karaites in Poland, it was Kin.g .lobn Sobieski who conceived ibe ]ilan of these colonies, iind in lliss onlcred .liiabam Shol'et to issue invitations to several Karaite families in Lithuania and Many from TroUi the Crimea to settle in Galieia. complied, and on them grants and priviU'ges were bestowid as well as communal autonomy. As to the surname Shofet (".Iudge"1. Xcubaner surmises that the l.iakani. or spiritual h'ader. of Ibe l.ilhuanian Karaites was clothed with judicial authority. liiiii.iocRAPliY Neiit>aiier. Ahk ilrr Prtrm/iiiiycr l»|i. 71, T*: Filrst, tic.^cb. </. Kiiriit rt. HI. s"».
lillilititlifli,
.M. I?.
ABRAHAM IBN SHOSHAN
Well known
member of the famous philanlhropi-l and rinaiicli Spanish family, lo which llie Sassoons tnice their descenl. He' lived in Spain (most likely at Toledo) He is mentioned .several in the fourlcenlh ceiilurv. limes in the responsa of .sher ben .lehiel, and also in David .Miiidraham's work on the ritual. i
BlIiLluCilurilY: .Mlcliuel,
Or
/iii-)/ii|/|/(iii.
No. SKI.
n.
