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Historical Epoch · 1050 CE – 1492 CE
Medieval Period
תקופת ימי הביניים
The Golden Age of Sepharad, Rashi and Tosafot in Ashkenaz, philosophical flowering, through the 1492 Spanish Expulsion.
Showing figures 1–13 of 13 in this epoch
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Moses Maimonides (Rambam)
March 30, 1138 – December 13, 1204The intellectual colossus of the medieval Jewish world, whose codification of Jewish law and synthesis of Aristotelian philosophy and Torah reshaped both rabbinic tradition and Western philosophy.
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Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki)
1040 CE – July 13, 1105The master commentator of Jewish civilization, whose verse-by-verse commentaries on the Hebrew Bible and the Babylonian Talmud unlocked the texts for all subsequent generations.
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#21Tier I
Isaac Luria
Historical –Rabbi and Kabbalist (c.1534–1572)
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Joseph Karo
1488 – 1575Spanish rabbi and author on Jewish law (1488–1575)
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Moses Isserles
Historical –Polish rabbi
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Yehuda al-Harizi
Historical –Andalusian rabbi, translator and poet (f. 12th century)
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Moses Cordovero
Historical –Italian physician
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Asher ben Jehiel
Historical –Rabbi and Talmudist (1250/1259–1327)
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Judah Halevi
Historical –Iberian philosopher and poet (c.1075–1141)
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Moses ibn Ezra
Historical –11th/12th-century Andalusian Jewish philosopher, linguist and poet
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Meir of Rothenburg
Historical –German rabbi and poet (c.1215–1293)
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Abraham ibn Ezra
Historical –12th-century Sephardic rabbi and astrologer
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Jacob ben Asher
Historical –German rabbinic authority (c. 1269 - c. 1343)
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