ABIGDOR DE FANO. See Fano, Abiodou dp;. ABIGDOR HAYYIM. See Havyim, AmiiDoK. ABIGDOR BEN ISAAC A French rabl.iiiie
livnl iluriiii.'- llji- mcoikI liiill' of llie tliirlie is iinibuhly iileiitiial with Ihe teeiitli ceiiniiy. "Ahi},'(li)r Ihe FreiiehiiiaM " iiieiiti<iii(il in did niannstripis, whi) wrote ii eoinmentary on the .^hlh/.o^. From anole in niannseript (Munich, >i'o.il'^)," Abif^iior the Frcnclnnan " ap]icars to have been an adherent of
scbdiar
.
It is possible that the rabbis Isaac and Cabala. Abigdor of Heziers, whom Nahnianides mentions in his letter to the Jewish community of that town, ' Ahijrdor the Frenchman" and his father Isjiac. lire On the other hand, it seems inijirobable that Abi.L'dor hen Isaac is identical with Aliiirdor mentioned in" The the
The
ilordecai."
latter is :io
mudist Abigdor liaKolien,
and
donbt the Austrian Tallived not long before
who
same region as Mordecai.
in the
BlBLIOfiRAPHY: Hip. K(. JuivcK, ill. 3; Zuuz, Lfi* ^friraiiisjuifa Frauraia^ p. 758.
iii(u.v,
i>.
194;
L. G.
ABIGDOR BEN HA-KANAH. Sec K.^.nah. ABIGDOR KARA. Sii' Kara, Abigdoi{. ABIGDOR BEN MENAHEM German Tal
the be^'inninLT ot the lifteenth cenThe IJodleian collection of manuscripts con tury. Abigdor ben Jlenaliem, to tains respoiis;i tiy him. judge from the place assigned to him in the collection, seems to liave been a contemporary of R. Jacob Slolln (died U-'T) and of H. Jacob Weil (1410). It is certain, liowever, that he was not living at the time when the responsa were collected, seeing that the collector |iuts after Abigdor's name the memorial formtila '"Dt," I"Pt ("lat is, Xikron hduKliittn niznh, The ni<-mory of the lioly Hhiiliiii iiiiKhkitlui nilijiili be everlasting; may he rest in peace). .Seiilimiir. ('<i(. /{.»». Hcbr. ilSS. No. 83). Illiu.ii)iMt.irMV
mudist; lived
at
=
L. G.
ABIGDOR BEN MOSES
Abigdor SoferofEisenstadtoi Abigdor Izmunsh): Lived (called also
lie translated in the si.Meenlh century in Cracow, certain portions of the prayer-book into German.
nniun(iR,rilv
Or
Abigdor Abigdor Zuvidal
THE JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA
59
.SU'lnschneliler, C'<i(. lui-llaiiilli". No- !•'•
Bmlh
No. 4171; Michael,
been a tutor for some time
in Berlin, he removed to followed the same vocation. Early in 177;J. while traveling through Sa.ony. he was arrested on a false charge, and lingered in the prison of I'iriia without an examination for ten months. Dining his conlinement he pursued his studies in the Hible, the Talmuil. and medieval Hebrew philosophy without interruption. At la.st he found an opportunity to send a letter in Hebrew describing his predicament to Mo.ses Mindelssohn. .Mendelssohn's reply, dated January liJ, 1774. was written in (ierman, ami, as anticipated, was openid and lead by the authorities. When they saw that the Hebrew sclKjlar whom they held in cust<Kly was a friend of .Mendelssohn, they cleared him of all su.spicion and set him at liberty. Through the aid of Isiuic Dessiiu and his relative. H. Hirsehel Levin (Zebi Hirseh)of Herlin, he w as enabled to return to Pnigue. The tirst wiirk Abigdor ])ublished was an elementary Hebrew grammareutitle<l " DabarTob'i.V Good Thing), with a table of c<injugations, to which he added .Moses ibn Habib's " Marpe Lashon," Prague, 17H8. In 17il:2 he edited the tirst series of letters which Mendelssohn had addressed lo liim (Dll-X T 01). and in 1797 su]ipleraented it with a .sec(aid
Prague
Abigdor was Itiiti.ioMt.MMiv
still
living.
(Jnis."*. tfiitliit
JwUitcn,
p. 2; Mlcliiiel,
Or hn-
Zuiiz, X. II. p. KM ; MHllMTNtiiinni, In Ki<lmk's aiiizc Xinlintil.iv. 17: SteliisclinelikT, Hcljr. HiW. xl.;;4. lliiilllii".
N".
14
L. G.
ABIGDOR BEN SAMUEL:
Arabia in Pru v/ky. and Selva I.ilhu-
Kn^Iioih, ilk.)v 7.han> ania and I'olanil). from 17111 (o ITIiH. Toward Ihe rinse of his life he removed to Wllna. where his son Samuel was rabbi. He died there .March 1. 1771. Hesponsa of his are found in the collection of Saul ben .Moses of Loin/.ha. (
.
nnM.io(ili.«l'llv: Yi.'riiit. p.
.'i,
(iil'ii'l
Wupuiw,
,s")i<ii(/,
Zdlklev. 1771
KinMui, RViifuct
l.s>«i.
A
ABIGDOR BEN SIM^A (.alld
also
Ii
I)
Abigdor
mwi <h i.ltiiiu, XJI^JO 'ii? in^'aX- D bti): A
(iernmn author, who was born in Glogau in Ihe second (|imrteror the eighti-entb century. After having
Levi
there
This supplement forms the ap|iendi. to his Toknit " (The Perfect Seal), on wdiich he prided himself very much. It is a didactic l)oem. and aims at proving that the teachings of the Bible smpass all the systems of philosophy ever invented, from Socrates to Kant. It does not. however, deserve the name of poetry it is nothing but a string of feeble arguments c<iuched in obscure language. The conimenlary which the author found neces.sary to supjily docs not make Ihe poem more intelligible; nor does the acrostic, which gives th<' name and place of birth of Ihe author, anil the date of composiii.m, I)oein,
"Holem
—
laik of imrelieve Ihe poem of its glaring faults agination and appropriate diction. In li^lfi Abigdor edited the Pentateuch with the commentary of Mendelssohn iind an introduction of his own. The last of his literarv elTorts was a poem embodied in S. W. Bliclmer's "Zahot ha Melizah." Berlin. ISUl. I D.
ABIGDOR KOSTELIZ.
B. .See
SIMON KosrtLiz
COSTELLEZ (Co.stki.lez),
or
Amu-
abigdor! SOLOMON BEN ABRAHAM:
lloNil^Ind in the lliirlcentli ,'iiid at the biginningof the fourleenth cenluries. He was the leaclier of .Abraham ben Nathan, Ihe author of " Ila-Manhig," in w hich wDrk .Vbigdor is twice men tion<'(l. In 13(11, when " Ila.Manhig " was written, Frelicli 'riilmuili'-l
and
series.
G.
ABIGDOR BEN NATHAN OF AVIGNON
in 17(i8,
.~ in I'iom nn' in |:;s|. bi-n .Mohul Abialiam B lam, he, at the <arly age of lifleen years. Iranslaled .Vrnauld dc Villeiieuve's work." De.Iudiciis .slroiio mia'." from Latin into Hebrew under the title " Panini baMishpat" (Methods of Ju<lgmenl). This Inuis.
llilinw iraiislalor; born
sislcil
by
his lallar,
I
In i:l!Ht he also slill exists in manuseript. translated Sacrobosco's "Spluera Mundi" (On tlii' .slronomy of the .^^plieres). under Ihe title "March ha-Ofanini" (The Indicilor of the Spheres). The last-mcnlioinil work was printed in Abniham bar Mivya's "Znral ha An>/. " (OlTeiibacb. l7-.'oi. with lioies by Mallalhiah Delaeret, Mani>ah Heiiilil. aiul others.
lalion
iniu.ioiiK.triiV: .sii'lnm-hni'lUiT, I'nI. //./ii. (V/i.iK. pp. ih;i, 7»«.
ABIGDOR ZUVIDAL:
/*«».
i-»l.
—
'>4:
l<l<"ni,
Italian nibbl of (Jernian ili-eent. wli.. Ili.Mrisb.-d in Ihe sivleinlh ronI>iivid de I'oinis. in tile lury; diid .Nov. i:l. Hiol. jireface to his iliclionary. "ifemah David," slates Ihal .bigdor was of (ierman descent. It was at Ihe reipiesl of .Vbiiidor ami some of his friends that Ju dali .Ios<-iila was prompted to write liiseoniiiieiilary on the "I'u/.ari." Abigdor xvits u disciple of Suniuel
