Gracian, Solomon Ben Moses (Ḥen)

Talmudist of Barcelona; lived at the end of the thirteenth and beginning of the fourteenth centuries; died in 1307. He was one of the synod that signed with R. Solomon b. Adret the decree of excommunication against Maimonides' partizans.He was also one of those who, after Bedersi's letter to Adret, tried to reconcile the two parties (see Jew. Enc. ii. 626). His name occurs three times in the "Minḥat Ḳena'ot," under letters 81, 83, and 87.

Bibliography:

  * Minḥat Ḳena'ot, letters 81, 83, 87;
  * Grätz, Gesch. d. Juden, 3d ed., vii. 241.



G. M. Sel.