Moses Kalfo

Moses Kalfo: Moses Kalfo, who lived at the beginning of the eleventh century at Bari, was an Italian Jewish scholar; he taught at the yeshibah there.

He is known through lexicographical explanations cited by Nathan ben Jehiel, author of the Aruk. Nathan ben Jehiel probably studied under him for some time.

References

Marco Mortara, Indice, p. 9;

Hermann Vogelstein and Paul Rieger, Geschichte der Juden in Rom, i. 358, 362;

Isaac Hirsch Weiss, Dor, iv. 308, note 9;

Eliakim Carmoly, in Revue Orientale, ii. 116.

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This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia article "Moses Kalfo" by Solomon Schechter and Max Schloessinger, a publication now in the public domain.

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