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Hasdai ben
Abraham Crescas (Catalan: [həzˈðaj ˈβeɲ ʒuˈða ˈkɾeskəs]; Hebrew: חסדאי קרשקש; c. 1340 in
Barcelona – 1410/11 in Zaragoza) was a Spanish-Jewish...
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Hasdai (Abu
Yusuf ben
Yitzhak ben Ezra) ibn
Shaprut (Hebrew: חסדאי אבן שפרוט; Arabic: حسداي بن شبروط, Abu
Yussuf ibn Shaprut) born
about 915 at Jaén, Spain;...
- Gaon (Hebrew) of the
Academy at Sura,
Syria David II,
Exilarch Solomon ben
Hisdai,
Exilarch Haninai II ben Baradoi,
Exilarch Joseph ben Jacob, Gaon of Sura...
- to a 12th-century
Rabbinic account, in
approximately 760,
Shelomoh ben
Ḥisdai II, the
Exilarch in
Babylon died, and two
brothers among his
nearest kin...
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originally a
member of the
academy of Pumbedita, but
Exilarch Solomon ben
Hisdai appointed him as Gaon of Sura as "there is no one
there (at Sura) as distinguished...
- out of the city on foot.
Hisdai and
Keren spoke in the
Hebrew equivalent of pig
latin to
confuse the Egyptians, and
Hisdai asked to have tank projectors...
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reign survive; however, he is
known from the
Khazar Correspondence between Hisdai ibn
Shaprut and the
Khazar king Joseph.
Historical authenticity and accuracy...
- self-government. The
calif Al-Muktafi
appointed a
wealthy man,
Samuel ben
Ḥisdai,
exilarch in Baghdad. He
gathered the taxes,
paying a
certain portion over...
- very
faraway place,
generally thought of as Hispania, or Spain.
Circa 960,
Hisdai ibn Shaprut,
minister of
trade in the
court of the
caliph in Córdoba, wrote...
- and R. Simḥah, with whom the
Danite ****ociated
while he was in Babylonia.
Hisdai ibn
Shaprut cites Eldad in his
letter to the king of the Khazars, and Eldad's...
