Isaac (Eisak) Ben Joshua Ben Abraham Of Prague

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. ii. 142;
  * Steinschneider, Jewish Literature, p. 217;
  * idem, Cat. Bodl. col. 1129;
  * Zunz, Z. G. p. 283.



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