Yitzchak Arama

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Jitzchak ben Moses Arama (born 1420 in Zamora , Spain ; died 1494 in Naples ) was a Jewish scholar in Spain, best known as a Pentateuch commentator.

Literature (selection)

  • Steinschneider , Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana , Berlin 1852 ff.
  • Zunz , The synagogal poetry of the Middle Ages , 1855
  • David Kaufmann , The Senses , 1884
  • Winter / Wünsche , The Jewish literature since the end of the canon , Trier 1894 ff.
  • Jewish Lexicon , Berlin 1927, Vol. I
personal data
SURNAME Arama, Yitzchak
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arama, Isaac ben Moses
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish Jewish scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1420
PLACE OF BIRTH Zamora (Spain)
DATE OF DEATH 1494
Place of death Naples