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Hezekiah I Transparent (c.940 - c.1001)

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Solomon Ben Yehudah Gaon al-fasi Transparent (c.975 - c.1050)

Solomon ben Judah Solomon ben Judah al-Fāsī was gaon of the Palestinian yeshiva from September 1025 to April 1051, the longest-serving gaon in Jerusalem. Despite war, famine, and major challenges to ...

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Abraham ben Yehudah "Cavalier" (de la Cavallleria) (c.1130 - d.)

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Natan Kalonymus ben Zakkai Yehudah (ben Ahunai) (c.788 - c.860)

Meshullam is a Biblical masculine name meaning "Befriended". In the Old Testament the name Meshullam was borne by eleven characters: One of the chief Gadites in Bashan in the time of Jotham (Ch1 5:...

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David ben Yaḥyā Nasi Transparent (c.1001 - c.1090)

David ben Hezekiah, who died sometime before 1090, was the son of the Babylonian exilarch Hezekiah II (r. ca. 1000–ca. 1060). Very little is known about David’s life. He was active in communal affair...

Eleazar of Worms Ben Yehudah (Kalonymus) (c.1170 - c.1236)

Eleazar's mystical works are: (1) "Yir'at El," still extant in manuscript in the Vatican Library, containing mystical commentaries on Psalm lxvii., on the Menorah, and on Sefirat ha-'Omer. (2) "Sef...

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Meshullam III "the Roman" ben Kalonymus II (c.967 - c.1030)

Rashi of Troyes (d. 1105) said less than a century after Gershom's death,[1] " all members of the Ashkenazi diaspora are students of his ." As early as the 14th century Asher ben Jehiel wrote[2] that R...

Hai Gaon (ben Sherira) / האי גאון Transparent (c.939 - 1038)

Hai ben Sherira , better known as Hai Gaon , was a medieval Jewish theologian, rabbi and scholar who served as Gaon of the Talmudic academy of Pumbedita during the early 11th century. He was born in 93...

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Hodaiah ben Josiah (ben Yehudah) (deceased)

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Josiah ben Yehudah (ben Azariah) (deceased)

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Kalonymus VI "the Elder" ben Yehudah (c.1176 - c.1238)

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Machir Todros ben Yehudah Zakai (c.789 - d.)

Duke of Narbonne and Count of Autun.

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Menachem ben Machir Todros (deceased)

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Moshe "Zaltzman" ben Yehudah haChassid (Kalonymus) (deceased)

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Nathan Kalonymus ben Machir Todros (ben Yehudah Zakai) (deceased)

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Nechemiah ben Machir Todros (ben Yehudah Zakkai) (deceased)

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Obediah ben Yehudah (ben Shlomo) (deceased)

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Pinhas ben Josiah (ben Yehudah) (deceased)

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Tzedakah ben Obediah (ben Yehudah) (deceased)

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wife Isaac Ben YEHUDAH (1148 - d.)

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Yachir ben Machir Todros (ben Yehudah Zakai) (deceased)

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Yededia ben Josiah (ben Yehudah) (deceased)

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Yekhuthi'el "Kalonymus" ben David (ben Yehudah) (c.810 - d.)