OTTOLENGHI, JOSEPH BEN NATHAN
- OTTOLENGHI, JOSEPH BEN NATHAN
- OTTOLENGHI, JOSEPH BEN NATHAN (d. 1570), rabbi of
cremona , Italy. As head of the yeshivah, he made Cremona famous
as a center of talmudic learning. Between 1558 and 1562 Ottolenghi
published about 20 Hebrew works at the celebrated Riva di Trento press.
He wrote novellae on the code of isaac alfasi and compiled an
index to the Mordekhai (the code of mordecai b. hillel
). Some of his contemporaries (among them the historian
joseph ha-kohen ) considered that the burning of the Talmud and
Hebrew legal works in Cremona in 1559, when over 10,000 volumes were
destroyed, was the consequence of a dispute between Ottolenghi and a
certain Joshua de Cantori, aggravated by the interference of the
apostate Vittorio Eliano.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Roth, Italy, 221, 303; Milano, Italia, 265, 620; J. Bloch, Hebrew
Printing in Riva di Trento (1933), 3; I. Sonne, Expurgation
of Hebrew Books – the Work of Jewish Scholars (1943),
21–38.
(Giorgio Romano)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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