Moses Jaffe of Bologna

Not to be confused with his grandson Moses ben Eliezer Jaffe II of Kraków.

Moses ben Eliezer Jaffe of Bologna (Hebrew: רבי משה בן אליעזר יפה מבולוניה; died 1480) was a prominent Polish-Italian rabbi.

He was born in Lesser Poland around 1400 to Eliezer ben Meir Jaffe, a German-born rabbi and scholar. In his early years he married Margolioth bat Samuel HaLevi. In the mid-15th-century he moved to Bologna, Italy, where he was the head of the rabbinical court and is mentioned in the "Shalshelet ha-Ḳabbalah" manuscript at St. Petersburg.[1] Jaffe died in Bologna around 1480. His son is Abraham of Bohemia.

References

  1. ^ "JAFFE (JOFFE) - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www.jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2020-07-31.


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