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Lagarto, Jacob
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
South-American rabbi and Talmudist of the seventeenth century; probably a son of Simon Lagarto of Amsterdam. He went to Brazil when a young man, and about 1680 was ḥakam of the Jews at Tamarica. He was the author of a work entitled "Ohel Ya'aḳob" or "Tienda de Jacob," conjectured by Wolf ("Bibl. Hebr." 3:1066b) to have contained Talmudic aphorisms. Kayserling thinks it was not written in America.
Bibliography:- Publ. Am. Jew. Hist. Soc. 2:16 and 17;
- Kayserling, Bibl. Esp.-Port.-Jud. p. 55.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Lagarto, Jacob'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/l/lagarto-jacob.html. 1901.