- Lot Number 53465
- Title (English) Bet Yisra'el [Ein Yacov], Part II
- Title (Hebrew) בית ישראל [עין יעקב], חלק ב
- Author R. Jacob ibn Habib
- City Venice
- Publisher דפוס פייטרו אלויסי ולורינצו בראגאדיני בבית ייואני קאליאוני
- Publication Date 1685
- Estimated Price - Low 800
- Estimated Price - High 1,500
- Item # 2398807
- End Date
- Start Date
Physical Description
Part 2 (of 2), 190 ff., folio, 293:204 mm., light age and damp staining, wide margins, final 8 ff. from a slightly shorter copy. A good copy bound in modern quarter leather and cloth over boards, rubbed on edges.
Detail Description
R. Jacob ben Solomon Ibn Habib (?1445–1515/16), was born in Zamora in Castile, Spain, where he is said to have been a pupil of R. Samuel Valency, and was one of the renowned scholars of Castile, heading a yeshiva in Salamanca which was one of the largest in Spain. On the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 he went to Portugal and before 1501 proceeded to Salonika where he became one of the leading scholars. First he taught in the Calabrian (native) community, and later was appointed rabbi of the Gerush community (of Spanish exiles), a position which he held until his death. His name appears among the first signatories on the early regulations of Salonika. He was personally responsible for some of these regulations, which would even seem to have been formulated by him. He also conducted a yeshivah in Salonika. His contemporaries and successors spoke of him in terms of the highest esteem and referred to him as gedol ha-dor ("the greatest of the generation"), mofet ha-dor ("the wonder of the generation"), and ha-ga'on.
Hebrew Description
עין ישראל. : ... נדפס עם תוספת הרבה חדושים ... ועל ראשם ספר בית לחם יהודה ... חלק א-ב.
חלק ב: בית ישראל (יבמות-עוקצין). קץ דף.
References
Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 # 000119953 ; EJ; A. Marx, Studies in Jewish History and Booklore (1944), 85, 89, 91; H. H. Ben-Sasson, in: Sefer Yovel... Y. Baer (1961), 222; idem, in: Zion, 26 (1961), 27, 50.