Judah Vega ( 16th–17th century) was the first rabbi of the second synagogue of
Amsterdam
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, Neveh Shalom, which was established in 1608. After a short time he resigned his office, and in 1610 went to
Constantinople
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, where he is said to have written a work entitled ''Jazania'' (?), which treated of the life of the
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from the time of the second destruction of
Jerusalem
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.
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confounds this Judah Vega with another person of the same name (not Bizo), who lived at the same time, and who went from
Salonica
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to
Safed, where he conducted a
Talmudic school and where he died. Judah Vega was a good preacher and
haggadist; his small collection of sermons, entitled ''Malke Yehudah,'' appeared at Lublin in 1616.
Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography
*Isaac Trani, Responsa, i. 139;
*De Barrios, Vida de Ishak Husiel, p. 42;
*Conforte, Ḳore ha-Dorot, p. 48a;
*De Rossi-Hamberger, Hist. Wörterb. p. 325;
*Grätz. Gesch. ix. 523.
References
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Dutch Orthodox rabbis
Dutch Sephardi Jews
17th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire
Rabbis in Safed
17th-century Dutch rabbis