Isaac ben Mose

Isaak ben Mose , also called Yitzchak Or Sarua or Riaz (acronym of Rabbi Isaak Or Zarua ) after his main work , (* around 1180 in Bohemia ; died around 1260 in Vienna ) was a Jewish scholar and dean .

He was a student of Eleazar ben Juda ben Kalonymos . Isaac ben Mose was best known for his work or sarua ("The rising light"), a halachic compendium that is also a valuable source for the history of the Jews in Germany , Bohemia and France at that time. In it he reports u. a. how he (around 1180) saw the house of prayer of the Meißner Jewish community painted with trees and birds in his boyhood.

literature

J. Wellesz: Isaak b. Cunt. Or Sarua, a literary-historical sketch . A. Alkalay & Son, 1905.

Web links

Isaac ben Mose in the Jewish Encyclopedia

Individual evidence

^ Fritz Reuter : Warmaisa: 1000 years of Jews in Worms . 3. Edition. Self-published, Worms 2009. ISBN 978-3-8391-0201-5 , p. 53.
↑ Elbogen, Ismar / Freimann, Aron / Tykocinski, Haim (eds.): Germania Judaica, 1: From the oldest times to 1238. Breslau 1934 (Reprint Tübingen 1963), 400 ff., Quoted in: Andreas Christl, Die Meißner Jewish community in the Middle Ages: evidence and written sources in context, journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de

personal data
SURNAME	Isaac ben Mose
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Jewish scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1180
DATE OF DEATH	around 1260

[1] Fritz Reuter : Warmaisa: 1000 years of Jews in Worms . 3. Edition. Self-published, Worms 2009. ISBN 978-3-8391-0201-5 , p. 53.

[2] Elbogen, Ismar / Freimann, Aron / Tykocinski, Haim (eds.): Germania Judaica, 1: From the oldest times to 1238. Breslau 1934 (Reprint Tübingen 1963), 400 ff., Quoted in: Andreas Christl, Die Meißner Jewish community in the Middle Ages: evidence and written sources in context, journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de