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Also Known As Yaabetz • Jacob ben Zebi
Born June 4, 1697 • Altona • Denmark
Died April 19, 1776 (aged 78) • Altona • Denmark
Subjects Of Study Talmud
Eleazar ben Judah Of Worms
German rabbi
Meir Of Rothenburg
Jewish rabbi and scholar
Jonathan Eybeschütz
Polish rabbi and scholar
Asher ben Jehiel
Spanish rabbi
Johannes Pfefferkorn
German controversialist
Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Moses Maimonides
Moses Maimonides
Jewish philosopher, scholar, and physician
Saʿadia ben Joseph
Jewish exegete and philosopher
St. Albertus Magnus
St. Albertus Magnus
German theologian, scientist, and philosopher
Rashi, from a French postage stamp.
Rashi
French religious scholar
Joseph ben Ephraim Karo
Jewish scholar
Yom Ṭov Lipmann ben Nathan ha-Levi Heller
Bohemian rabbi and scholar
Eck, Johann
Johann Eck
German theologian
Levi ben Gershom
French scholar
Hai ben Sherira
Jewish scholar
Solomon Schechter
American rabbi and scholar
Leo Pinsker
Russian-Polish physician and polemicist
Samuel ha-Nagid
Spanish-Jewish scholar and statesman
Jacob ben Meir Tam
French Judaic scholar
Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi
Jewish scholar