Isaac Guetta
Isaac Guetta | |
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| Born | June 5, 1777 |
| Died | February 2, 1857 (aged 79) |
| Resting place | Safed Old Jewish Cemetery |
Isaac Guetta (Hebrew: יצחק גויטע; June 5, 1777 – February 2, 1857) was a Talmudic scholar and educationalist.
Biography
[edit]Isaac Guetta was born in Tripoli, Libya, into a family tracing back to Jews who arrived in the Near East from Huete, Spain. He spent a significant portion of his life in Triest. In his later years, Guetta relocated to the Holy Land, where in Tiberias and Safed he played a pivotal role in establishing Talmudic seminaries.
Guetta authored four volumes of novellæ to the Babylonian Talmud, published in Leghorn (1846–47) and in Vienna (1851–56) under the title Sedeh Yiẓḥaḳ.[1]
His grandson was the Hebrew poet David Ara, author of the collection Ḳol Dawid (Venice, 1880).
References
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gottheil, Richard; Kayserling, Meyer (1904). "Guetta, Isaac". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 105–106.
- ↑ Zedner, Joseph (1867). Catalogue of the Hebrew Books in the Library of the British Museum. London: Wertheimer, Lea and Co. p. 276.
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- 1777 births
- 1857 deaths
- 18th-century Sephardi Jews
- 19th-century Sephardi Jews
- Authors of works on the Talmud
- Italian people of Libyan-Jewish descent
- Libyan Jews
- People from Safed
- People from Tripoli, Libya
- Sephardi Jews from Ottoman Palestine
- People from Ottoman Palestine
- Writers from Trieste
- Burials at the Old Jewish Cemetery, Safed
- People from Tiberias