Toldoth Yitzchak [on the Pentateuch]

KARO, ISAAC BEN JOSEPH

n.p.

Riva di Trento

1558

Third edition. Previous owners' signatures and stamps include R. Abraham Joseph Solomon Graziano (“Ish Ger Anochi Ba'Aretz”); Moshe Lifschitz and Joseph hayun of Tripoli

Vinograd, Riva 2

"Ish-Ger" Copy. A concisely written commentary to the Pentateuch which includes literal, homiletical, kabbalistic and philosophical interpretations. The author, Isaac ben Joseph Karo was a native of Toledo and a man of wide culture. Several years before the Spanish Expulsion in 1492, Isaac Karo moved his yeshivah to Portugal, but following the the subsequent expulsion of the Jews from there in 1497, he fled to Turkey where he entered the rabbinate of Constantinople and from where Toldoth Yitzchak was first published in 1518. See EJ, V col. 193