"
Abudiente
ABTTDIEN'TE iiii;
of
at l.islioii.
tliu
TllK .IKWISU
Abraham
Abulafia,
sixictiuli
Manino
N'ami' of a
fiuiiily
liv-
Gideon Abudiente, ahoiit tliV ((lit my, is the earliest bearer of
ciul
name of whom we have eojtiiizance. gether with some other members of early
emijrnited,
in
the
si-venteenth
the family, century, to
the descendants discarded the second part of the name and called themselves Gideon. In the lists of the Portuguese cougregatinii at Anislerdam, fur the year 167r). the names Eliau Obediente, Jeu-
dah Obediente, and Jeudah Raphael Obediente apjiiar. (tKtnt't ittf
T)p ra.«trci,
Amytt
If
M'<iiiiU-<ihrifl.
Kimlomi
1.x,
Dc
viUiin.
il'.i:
.^i/imyiiyr 1ST.>.
pp.
ireprinKKl tniin
llie Jt- ir.
ran de Port.-Ixrail.
.'»!,
Die
I.uoleii Wi.lf,
.M; Kayserlinp, lii Trci'cs Familii in
140
ABTJ-L-FADHL DATJD. ABXJ-L-KHEIR
(• Fiithcrof the
Good
A
showed, is in i)ait plagiarized from Handali's commentary. Two years later he translated Albubather's "Liber de Nativitulibus " from Latin into Hebrew, under the title of "Sefer ha-Moladot," and also Ra,jirs astronomical work, "Completus," Abu-1-Kheir's works have not been printed, but are to be found in manuscript in many Europeaa liljraries.
Bibliocbapiit: i^telnschneider, Hebr. Uebern.
11.546,
Lt.
mystic: born about the beginning of the seventeenth ccniiirv; died after KIOO. He lived in Amsterdam, and his signature is among the first on the letter of honuige sent by twenty four distinguished men of Amsterdam to Shabbetuai Zeui in October. 1666. Bibliography 3fonot«8chri/t, 1876, pp. ui-iw. ,, ,.
ABU-L-RABI. BEN
Daniel Abudiente I'nclc of JIosf.s Gideon Abidientk. whose (Jraminatica Hcbraica " he commemorated ill 11 Spanish sonnet i»relixcd to the work.
Gideon Moses Abudiente A son of JIoses Gideon Abidiente, and. like his father, gifted with poetical talent. He wrote a eulogy on Joseph
ben Isaac Penso's "Pardes Shoshaunim" (Garden of Lilies), Amsterdam. 1673. Judah Abudiente Probably a son of Daniel Abudiente; lived at Amsterdam, and published " Or Tob " (Good Light) a Hebrew-Spanish glossary for the young (p. 82. Amsterdam. 1675). Moses Gideon Abudiente Portuguese poet and Hebrew graiiiiiiarian liorn at Lisbon early in the seventeenth century: moved to Amsterdam. Holland, about 1624: and died at Hamburg, Germany. February 24, 1688. For some years previous to his removal to Hamburg he lived at GU'ickstadt. Holstein. He wrote in Portuguese "Grammatica Ilebraica," the tirst part of which appeared in Hamburg. 1633, and included in the fourth ])arl, devoted to Hebrew style, some of his own poems. He also published " Fin de los Dias Publica ser Llegado. y Fin de los Dias Proiioslicado por lodos los Proiihetas,
,
liMll
See
Solomon bex Abuauam
11,
1
ABU-L-SAR BEN JUTA.
Diilcli scholar anil
r>.'>7,580.
L. G.
„
Abraham ben Gideon Abudiente A prominent
"; called
also Isaac ben Samuel) : Spanish scholar and translator, wlm nourished in the tifteenth century. He was e.pellcd from Spain in 1492, and settled at Padua, where, in 1496, he completed his Hebrew commentary u])on Al-Fcrgain's " Extract from the Almagest." which, however, as Steinschncidcr
C/iniii.l. p. 15, I/iinluii.
ISlHi.
Anu
Daid,
Set;
Faiuii
tliis
Ills son, to-
Amsterdam, where they reverted to the Synagogue. From liere some Abudientes went to Ilamburir. and (ithers to London, where they seem to liave borne the double name CJideoiiAbudiente; but in England
I!iiii.1(";r.mmiv
KXCYCLOPEDIA
Mazmah
ABU-L-WALID See
lisN .Ian
MERWAN
Sahl ben
See
IBN JANA?.
AH,
ABULAFIA or ABU AL 'AFIYAH iSs 13K X"2V"^13N S'2y. that is, "Father of Health"; written also VBsisnX: from which the Italian name "Bolalli" and the English "BolalTey " are certainly derived. See Steinschneider. ".lew. Quart. Rev." xi. The name appears as Abenefeia in the Barcelona list of 1383. "Rev, 6t, Juives," iv. 66): Name of a widely .scjittered Jewish family of Spanish origin, one of whose branches, for the sake of clearer (Icsignation, bore the surname of Ha-Levi. Jlembers of this family were found in various tities of the Orient and in Africa in the sixteenth century. From the datji collected by Zunz, "Z. G," pp. 432—134, the following imperfect genealogical trees can be 4S8.
drawn
for later
u]i:
descendants see Bolaffey;
Judab AbulaHa ha-Levl,
XII. («nt, I
Todros of Toledo, 1204
Joseph
Melr(J^-"">).d. 1214 I
Moses, d.
Todros of Burgos,
12,5.5
d. 128:3 I
.loseph of Talavera, Xlll. cent.
166."), treating of the theology of the prophets, in which, according to Da Costa, he seems to follow Shabbethai Zebi ("Israel en dc Volken," His Hebrew poems arc said to 1873, 2d ed., p. 51")). exist in manuscript; some of them were published in ' Ha- Jleassef " (the Hebrew ma.srazine issued in 1785), and reprinted in "Bikkure ha-Itlim."' BIBi.innRAPHY: Delitzsch, Zur Clench. (I. JIM. Pncsir. p. 82; StelnschiK^ider, Cot. Bodl. col. 17(12; Kavserllng, in MoiiaU-
Glilckstadt.
schrift, ix.
M. K. Relative of Moses Gideon
lived at the beginning of the seven teentli century: author of Hebrew and Spanish poetry, still in manuscript at Oxford.
BiBLiOGn,KPHv: Kavserllns, Bihl. Esp.-Port. Jud.p.8; Neubaupr, ('(It. limtl. llchr. .l/.s'.'J. No. SKI, No. i.
G.
ABUDIENTE, SAMSON. SON.
(1280-1310) I
Samuel
Judali. d. 1»49
Solomon,
Melr,
Samuel,
d. 1339
d. V.U9
d. 1349
Ii9.
Solomon Abudiente Abudiente
Samuel
Melr
See Gideon,
Sam
I
1 Melr, d.
VW
Josepti, d. i:t.Vi
Samuel, d. aliout 13fin
The first Abidafia lived in the twelfth century in Toledo, ami the first .Tew to settle in Spain in modern It is probable times was an Abulafia from Tunis. that Moses and Solomon Afia (n"Sy). mentioned in 1445 as prominent men in Saragosi-a, belonged to the M. K. G. same family.
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