Jacob ben Solomon Chabib
Jakob ben Salomo Chabib (* approx. 1445 in Zamora ; † approx. 1515 in Saloniki ) was a Spanish-Jewish scholar and rabbi .
Life
He lived in a time of tension on the Iberian Peninsula . After the inquisition began , it became increasingly difficult for him to avoid persecution, and so he fled to Portugal with his son Levi (* 1484) around 1492. A Christian (forced) baptism offered him a short protection there. But in 1501 he had to flee again and escaped to Saloniki. There he became a rabbi.
His best-known work is en jaakow ("Jacob's Fountain"), a classic compendium of the Agada of the Babylonian Talmud .
The work was published by the author himself in Saloniki and reprinted more than a hundred times. A Yiddish translation by Josef Meier Jawitz was published in Warsaw from 1885–87, an English translation in 1919–21 by SH Glick, and a French translation in 1983 by Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre.
literature
- Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Chernivtsi 1925 ff., Vol. I, p. 543
- Georg Herlitz u. a .: Jewish Lexicon . Jüdischer Verlag, Berlin 1927, Vol. I, Sp. 1296
- Encyclopaedia Judaica, Judaism in Past and Present , Volume 5, Berlin 1930
- Encyclopaedia Judaica , Volume 8, 1971
- Jutta Baum-Sheridan: Studies on West Yiddish Esther poems (Yidish Schtudies; 5). Buske, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-87548-139-9 , p. 45
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Chabib, Jacob ben Solomon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chabib, Jakob b. Solomon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish-Jewish scholar and rabbi |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1460 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zamora |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1515 |
| Place of death | Saloniki |