IBN EZRA, SOLOMON BEN MOSES
- IBN EZRA, SOLOMON BEN MOSES
- IBN EZRA, SOLOMON BEN MOSES (d. 1688), Turkish rabbi. A pupil
of joseph escapa , he became dayyan at Smyrna, where
because of his knowledge of Turkish he was appointed secretary of the
community as well as its representative (kehaja) in its
dealings with the Turkish authorities. He adopted a lenient attitude
toward the Karaites. Several of his novellae are included in Battei
Kenesiyyot (Salonika, 1806), a book of novellae and responsa
written by his grandson Abraham ibn Ezra of Salonika. Solomon wrote a
number of introductions and edited and compiled indexes to the works of
other authors, including Ḥayyim Benveniste 's Keneset
ha-Gedolah (Leghorn, 1658), and jacob berab 's responsa
(Venice, 1663).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Conforte, Kore, 32b; S. Ḥazan, Ha-Ma'alot li-Shelomo (1859),
93a, no. 19; Rosanes, Togarmah, 4 (1935), 168–9; A. Galanté,
Histoire des Juifs d'Anatolie, 1 (1937), 52–53.
(Simon Marcus)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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