AVIGDOR BEN ELIJAH HA-KOHEN
- AVIGDOR BEN ELIJAH HA-KOHEN
- AVIGDOR BEN ELIJAH HA-KOHEN (c. 1200–1275), talmudic scholar
in Italy and Austria. Avigdor was born in Italy and studied under
Eleazar b. Samuel of Verona, Isaac of Verona, and later Simḥah b. Samuel
of Speyer. For a number of years Avigdor lived in northern Italy in
Ferrara, in Mantua, and in Verona. Students flocked to his school at
Verona, among them members of the distinguished Anav family of Rome,
including zedekiah b. abraham anav . For a time Avigdor lived in
Halle, Germany, from where he conducted halakhic correspondence with
hezekiah b. jacob of Magdeburg concerning a letter of divorce. On
the death of isaac b. moses Or Zaru'a of Vienna, Avigdor was
invited to succeed him at Vienna. For about 25 years he was the central
rabbinic figure in Austria, and transplanted the talmudic scholarship of
Italo-German Jewry to Austria, which eventually became the most
important center of Ashkenazi Jewry. Both Isaac Or Zaru'a and Abraham of
Pesaro referred to him as one of "the greatest scholars of our
generation." He was one of the teachers of meir b. baruch of
Rothenburg. His responsa are included in the responsa of Meir of
Rothenburg, in the Haggahot Maimoniyyot, in
Mordekhai, in the responsa of R. Asher b. Jehiel and of
Ḥayyim b. Isaac of Vienna, and in the Shibbolei ha-Leket.
His tosafot to the talmudic tractates of Ketubbot
and Eruvin have survived, as well as a commentary on the
Pentateuch and the Five Scrolls.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
S. Buber (ed.), Shibbolei ha-Leket (1886), 8 (introd.); J.
Hamburger, Avigdor Kohen Ẓedek (Mainz, 1900); Zimmels, in:
HḤY, 15 (1931), 110–26; Urbach, Tosafot, 442, n. 4; I.A. Agus,
Teshuvot Ba'alei ha-Tosafot (1954), 199–204; S.K. Mirsky
(ed.), Shibbolei ha-Leket (1966), 13–25; Germ Jud, 1 (1934),
410–3, no. 5.
(Irving A. Agus)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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