Judah ben Solomon Taitazak () was a Talmudist who lived at Salonica in the 15th and 16th centuries. He was the brother of Joseph ben Solomon and a member of the

Taitazak family The Taitazak family was a prominent family of Spanish Jews, several members of which distinguished themselves as Talmudic authorities. Various opinions have been expressed as to the origin of the name, the exact orthography and signification of whi ...

. He was the author of ''She'erit Yehudah'' (Salonica, 1599–1600), commentating and supplementing Joseph Caro's ''Bet Yosef,'' on the second volume of the

Ṭurim ''Arba'ah Turim'' ( he, אַרְבָּעָה טוּרִים), often called simply the ''Tur'', is an important Halakhic code composed by Yaakov ben Asher (Cologne, 1270 – Toledo, Spain c. 1340, also referred to as ''Ba'al Ha-Turim''). The f ...

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* David Conforte, Ḳore ha-Dorot, p. 34b; *

Moritz Steinschneider Moritz Steinschneider (30 March 1816, Prostějov, Moravia, Austrian Empire – 24 January 1907, Berlin) was a Moravian bibliographer and Orientalist. He received his early instruction in Hebrew from his father, Jacob Steinschneider ( 1782; ...

, Cat. Bodl. col. 1373. Year of birth missing Year of death missing Talmudists Rabbis from Thessaloniki 16th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 {{Judaism-bio-stub