Korei HaDoroth [rabbinic history]. Edited by David Aschkenazi of Jerusalem

Estimate: $200–$300
Hammer price: $300

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author

CONFORTE, DAVID

printer

Bragadin

Place

Venice

Publication

1746

references

Vinograd, Venice 1848

summary

David Conforte (c. 1618-c.1685), a native of Salonika, studied in his youth with Rabbis Daniel Estroza, Baruch Angel, and Asher Zevulun. In 1652 we find him in Egypt, where Korei HaDoroth was composed. In constructing biographies of the famed rabbis through the ages, the author displays wide erudition in the rabbinic literature. His chronicle is especially valuable for the literary history of the Jews in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. See JE, Vol. IV, pp. 226-27

ff. 52. Ex-Library, dampwrinkled. Modern calf. Sm. 4to

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