Joseph ibn Verga (

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: יוסף אבן וירגה) was a

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rabbi and

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who lived at

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at the beginning of the 16th century. He was the son of Solomon ibn Verga, author of ''Shebeṭ Yehudah'' ( Scepter of Judah) who emigrated from

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to Turkey as a ''

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''. Joseph was a pupil of Joseph Fasi, a contemporary of Tam ibn Yaḥya and of the physician Moses Hamon, and belonged to the college of rabbis of Adrianople. He completed his father's work by adding a record of some of the events of his own time and of the age immediately preceding. He knew

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, and incorporated in the ''Shebeṭ Yehudah'' some narratives which he translated from what he calls the "Christian language". He also added a supplication ("''teḥinnah''") written by himself. Joseph was the author of ''She'erit Yosef'',hebrewbooks.org
Adrianople, 1554. a

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of the

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, giving the rules that are wanting in the ''Halikhot 'Olam'' of Yeshu'ah ha-Levi and in the ''Sefer Keritut'' of

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. However, Wolf (''Bibl. Hebr.'' i., No. 880) attributes this book to another Joseph ibn Verga, who lived at Avlona.

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, Ḳore ha-Dorot, p. 34a; * Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, i. 39; *

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, Cat. Bodl. col. 1538; *

Julius Fürst Julius Fürst (; 12 May 1805, Żerków, South Prussia – 9 February 1873, Leipzig), born Joseph Alsari, was a Jewish German orientalist and the son of noted maggid, teacher, and Hebrew grammarian Jacob Alsari. Fürst was a distinguished schola ...

, Bibl. Jud. iii. 473.

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