MINZ, ABRAHAM BEN JUDAH HA-LEVI
- MINZ, ABRAHAM BEN JUDAH HA-LEVI
- MINZ, ABRAHAM BEN JUDAH HA-LEVI (d. 1525), Italian scholar
and rabbi. Some time before 1509, acting on behalf of his father,
judah b. eliezer ha-levi minz of Padua, he insulted the famous
rabbi, Jacob Margolis of Regensburg. Both father and son subsequently
made public apology. In January 1509, after his father's death, Abraham
was appointed to succeed him, but in July of the same year a decree of
expulsion was issued against him by the Venetian authorities for having
presented a gift in the name of the Padua community to the chief of the
conquering imperial German army during the sack of Padua. The decree was
apparently revoked some time thereafter, as Minz is known to have
visited Padua about ten years later. After leaving Padua, Abraham spent
15 months in Ferrara, being supported there by the wealthy
parnas, Norsa, whom he later sided with in the notorious
finzi-norsa controversy , at the height of which
jacob pollak , a partisan of Abraham Raphael Finzi, and Minz
excommunicated each other. Abraham subsequently became rabbi in Mantua.
His son-in-law, meir katzenellenbogen , occupied the Padua
rabbinate.
Abraham was the author of a number of responsa, which are printed
together with those of his uncle by marriage, R. Liwa of Ferrara
(Venice, 1511). He was the author, too, of Seder Gittin
va-Ḥaliẓah, printed together with the responsa of his father
and his son-in-law (Venice, 1553). He died in Padua.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
A. Marx, Studies in Jewish History and Booklore (1944),
107–54 (= Abhandlungen… Chajes (1933), 149–93); I.T.
Eisenstadt and S. Wiener, Da'at Kedoshim (1897/98), 5–38, 88
(third pagination).
(Shlomo Eidelberg)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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