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112 Abraham ben Isaac Shalom Abraham ba-Levi

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BIDI-IOURAI'IIY II. (iross. In .Vi>na(«fw?irf,f(, 1868, xvli. 341-255, 281-L1H Idem, fiaUiii Jiiiliiird, pp. 414-41.'> Renan, Leu UnliMlrhael, ( >r li(i-lliiiiii<aa( ABRAHAM BEN ISRAEL COHEN RAPUAroi'dur. OPORT (" Schrenzel"). ABRAHAM ISRAEL PEREYRA. Sec

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lie was and author; lioru about and a member of the bet din, or rabbinical tribunal, presided over by Moses ben Jonathan Galante. He is the author of a theological work called "Bcrit Abraham" (The Covenant I.Iayyim Abulatia quotes him in his of Abraham). book " 'Ez Hayyim,' and elsewhere. lllTd.

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the influence of Duke Albert of Prussia and "in memory of the siTvices of the late Abraham Jesofovieli." etc, the king in 1.525 raised the Jew Michael lie died about Jrsofovich to the rank of nobility, 15:!ll, .Many of the descendants of Aliialiaiii .lesofovich held high positions in Lithuania. Thus, in the eighteenth century, a certain senator, Andrei .bramovich. was castelian of Brest-Litovsk (lT57-tj;i), Uini.iooRAPiiY: Bershiwlski. LUnroliir Ycrrci. St. Petersbunr, IHK), p. :J4iilT.ai31T. anrt.l/iram Jfw/orio/i, Klev,li*D(: Wolft, /i;i/ MiiiMrcin Kn'ila Xuomunta, ITacow, 188.5; Berrliln, I'l iTci Ministr Vik., 1«W, v, 1(K ct wn. II.

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ASHKENAZI KATZENELLENBOGEN. S, e Kai zi Nil i.iM'.iH.i N, Auk Ml wi ABRAHAM BEN JOSEPH HA-LEVI, OF CRACOW: Polish commentator, born at Cracow about UiJO; died, probably in Hamburg, about 1070, or at least some time after 1.59, In conseiiucnce of the persecution of the Jews of Poland by the Cossacks in 1C.5C he lied from his native city and sought asylum in Hamburg, Here he produced a commentary upon Megillat Ta'anil.which was iiiiuled at Amsterdam, in 10.59, and went through several editions. His work, however, was not favorably received by his contemporaries, for both Ejdiraim Cohen, ••lullior of "Sha'ar Lphraim," a collection of rabbinical ilecisions, and Abraham Gonibiiier, author of " .Magen Abraham." refer to him somewhat disparagingly. BiHLioiiKAPilv



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trea.sury of Lithuania under Kinir Sigismuud L of Poland"; born in the middle of the fifteenth century; Alexander Jau'eldied at Brest I.itovsk, 1.519, lon expelleil the Jews from Lithuania in 14!).-) (from which banisliinent they returned iu 1.5U3) the most

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prominent Jews of the principality were the three brothers .lesofovich of Brest Abraham. Michael, and Abndiam was then assessor of Kovno, and Isaac. as soon as the edict for the banishment of the Jews was issued, he went to Wiliia to return the accounts of the district which had been entrusted to him. He probably emigrated to Poland with the rest of his coreligionists, liut returned and emliraced Cliristiaiiity. This so pleased Ale.Vandrr that he elevated him to the rank of nobility, giving him the supplementary name " Jastrzhembetz." In 1.506. when .Vbrahain fanned the revenue of the customs of Kovno. he held the titles of alderman of Smolensk and ]irefect of Minsk, and the king presented him with the estate of Voidiing. When King Sigismund I, ascended the throne in l.")G, he continued the titles and gifts

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of Lithuania. Abr.diam stood high in the royal favor, and in 1.50!) Sigismund I, granted him the estates and manorial rights of Grinkov and two estates In 1.510 Abraham was apin the district of Troki, pointed secretary of the treasury of Lithuania, which position he held until his death. His brothers Michael

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I'lrmji Taluiuilist; lived al Miraiis, and perhaps at London, iu the twelfth century. He belongs to the older tosatists. and his interpretations of the Talmud are i|Uoted several times in the Tosafot. He He is mentioned as the father of three daughters. was the father-in-law of Judah ben Isjiac, of Paris, siirnamcd Sir Leon (110G-12',i4) and therefore a contemporary of Habbenii Tain of Kauieru, the head t

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of the tos;itis"tie ,school in the middle orihe twelfth It has been suggested by Jacobs that he century. is identical with the Abraham til Habbi Joce, mentioned in the English records of the twelfth century. Zunz. Z. G. p. 47: Jacobs, Jews nf Anycpin pp. 400, 417; Gross, G<iltk< Jiulaica, p. 57.

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ABRAHAM BEN JOSEPH SOLOMON HAI^AZAN

Karaite rabbi at Koslnv, now Kiipaloria. Crimea, in the first half of the nineteenth century. His father, Joseph Solomon, whom he succeeded in the

rabbinate, instructed him in the literature and science He is the author of six Hebrew of the Karaites. " poems, which arc found in the "Karaite Litvirgy (Vienna ed,, pp, 108 </.'«?, ), In a poem, composed in honor of Siinha Bobowich, who was head of the Koslov community which poem is also incorporated in the "Liturgy " (p. 187)— he calls himself, from the initials of his fathers name, Ibn Yashar,

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Uabbi at Kolbushowa, and lateral .Miedzyboz, Poland; lived in