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Isaac (Eisak) ben Joshua ben Abraham of Prague

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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Physician and parnas of Prague in the sixteenth century. He was the author of "'Olat Yiẓḥaḳ" a collection of ritual laws arranged after the Arba' Ṭurim of Jacob ben Asher. They are in the form of 843 problems or riddles, in one hundred chapters (Prague, 1606).

Bibliography:
  • Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 432;
  • Fürst. Bibl. Jud. 2:142;
  • Steinschneider, Jewish Literature, p. 217;
  • idem, Cat. Bodl. col. 1129;
  • Zunz, Z. G. p. 283.
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Bibliography Information
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Isaac (Eisak) ben Joshua ben Abraham of Prague'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​i/isaac-eisak-ben-joshua-ben-abraham-of-prague.html. 1901.
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