Isaac ben Abraham Uziel (died 1 April 1622,
Amsterdam
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) ( he, יצחק בן אברהם עזיאל) was a
Moroccan physician, poet and grammarian, born at
Fez
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, Morocco. At one time he held the position of rabbi at
Oran, Algeria, but late in life he left that city to settle in
Amsterdam
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, where he opened a
Talmudical school which counted among its pupils
Manasseh ben Israel
Manoel Dias Soeiro (1604 – 20 November 1657), better known by his Hebrew name Menasseh ben Israel (), also known as Menasheh ben Yossef ben Yisrael, also known with the Hebrew acronym, MB"Y or MBI, was a Portuguese rabbi, kabbalist, wri ...
and
Isaac Aboab da Fonseca
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. Dissatisfied with the laxity in religious matters which he noticed among many members of the
Sephardic community, Uziel delivered a series of lectures which led to the foundation of a new congregation under the name of "Neveh Shalom". In 1610, at the death of
Judah Vega, the first rabbi of the new congregation, Uziel was called to the rabbinate.
Uziel was the author of a
Hebrew
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grammar, ''Ma'aneh Lashon,'' edited by his pupil Isaac Nehemiah at Amsterdam in 1627 (2nd ed. 1710). He left also in manuscript many Hebrew and
Spanish
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Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Can ...
poems (''Libros Poeticos en Declaracion de Todos los Equivocos de las Sagradas Letras''); these are highly praised by
De Barrios, who represents the author as a great poet, an able musician, and a distinguished mathematician.
Joseph Serrano
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dedicated a poem to Uziel; it is inserted in the ''Temime Derek.''
Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography
*Koenen, Geschiedenis der Joden in Nederland, pp. 144, 428;
*
Adolf Jellinek
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, in Orient, Lit. viii. 264, 276;
*
Meyer Kayserling
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Life
Kayserling was born in Hanover, and was the brother of writer and educator Simon Kayserling. He was educated at Halbersta ...
, ''Geschichte der Juden in Portugal'', p. 285;
*idem, Bibl. Esp.-Port.-Jud. p. 107;
*
Moritz Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. s.v.;
*
Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 646.
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