PROVENÇAL, JACOB BEN DAVID
- PROVENÇAL, JACOB BEN DAVID
- PROVENÇAL, JACOB BEN DAVID (15th century), scholar
of France and Italy. It is probable that Jacob was the ancestor of the
Provençal (Provenzale) family that settled in Mantua in the
16th century. He resided first in Marseilles, where he
engaged in maritime trade, but subsequently went to Naples, where he is
mentioned in c. 1480 as one of its rabbis.
It was from Naples that he wrote a letter to Messer
david b. judah leon of Mantua, in which he expressed his opinion
on the value of secular studies, particularly medicine (see Divrei
Ḥakhamim (1849) edited by Eliezer Ashkenazi). He gave an
approbation for the Agur of
jacob baruch b. judah landau which appears in the Rimini edition
of 1526. He also seems to have written a commentary on the
song of songs which was published together with the commentaries
of saadiah Gaon and joseph ibn kaspi in about 1577.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Ghirondi-Neppi, 215; Gross, Gal Jud, 383f.; M.A. Shulvass, Ḥayyei
ha-Yehudim be-Italyah bi-Tekufat ha-Renaissance (1955), 75, 142,
238; C. Roth, Jews in the Renaissance (1959), 43n.
(Yehoshua Horowitz)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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