ḤAYYUN, ABRAHAM BEN NISSIM

ḤAYYUN, ABRAHAM BEN NISSIM: ḤAYYUN, ABRAHAM BEN NISSIM (d. 1500), Portuguese scholar; a pupil of Joseph b. Abraham Ḥayyun\>\> , rabbi of Lisbon. He was among the Jews who left Portugal after the decree of expulsion was issued in 1496, settling in Constantinople. He wrote Imrot Tehorot, an ethical work (Constantinople, 1515–20; Salonika, 1595; and Jerusalem, 1876), and Ma'amar be-Mofetim, on miracles described in the Bible (mentioned by Abraham b. Solomon Ḥayyun at the end of Joseph Ḥayyun's Millei de-Avot). -BIBLIOGRAPHY: M. Kayserling, Geschichte der Juden in Portugal (1867), 74; Benjacob, Oẓar, 41 no. 786; A. Yaari, Ha-Defus ha-Ivri be-Kushta (1967), 79, 128.

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ḤAYYUN, JOSEPH BEN ABRAHAM — (d. 1497), last rabbi of the Jewish community of Lisbon before the expulsion. Among his distinguished disciples were Abraham b. Nissim Ḥayyun and joseph jabez . While Ḥayyun was still in Lisbon, isaac abrabanel consulted him on various halakhic… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ISTANBUL — ISTANBUL, city in N.W. turkey , on both sides of the Bosphorus at its entrance on the Sea of Marmara (for history prior to 1453, see constantinople ). Constantinople was taken from the Byzantine emperor in 1453 by the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II… … Encyclopedia of Judaism

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