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References
- ↑ Encyclopedia Judaica: "Solomon Adeni (1567-1625)"
- ↑ Introduction to the Mishnah Commentary, Melekhet Shlomo.
- ↑ The Jewish Encyclopedia Isidore Singer, Cyrus Adler - 1964 "..and he counted among his pupils such men as Isaac Luria and Solomon Adeni."
- ↑ Abraham Isaac Laredo Les noms des Juifs du Maroc Page 383 - 1978 "Joseph ASHKENAZI, rabbin, commentateur de la Mishnah à Safed, mort entre 1575 et 1582. Quoique venu de Vérone, Joseph appartenait à une famille d'origine allemande. Ses gloses sur la Mishnah ont partiellement été publiées dans le"
- ↑ "Hebron: A Hebron Community - Hebron, City of the Patriarchs - Official web site of the Jewish Community of Hebron". www.hebron.com. Archived from the original on 2016-02-02. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
- ↑ An allusion to a teaching in the Minor Tractates of the Talmud, Tractate Kallah Rabati 10: Baraita # 55: "The writers of scrolls, phylacteries and door-post scripts, they and their merchants, and the merchants of their merchants, do not see any sign of a blessing."
- ↑ Solomon Adeni, Introduction to Mishnah Commentary "Melekhet Shelomo"
Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography
- Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, I. letter Shin, No. 57; II. letter Daleth, No. 7;
- Sambary, ed. Neubauer, in Med. Jew. Chron. i. 152;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. No. 6890;
- idem, Hebr. Bibl. xvii. 54;
- Jew. Quart. Rev. 1898-99, xi. 339;
- Polak, Perush Bertinoro, Amsterdam, 1856;
- Kaufmann, in Monatsschrift, 1898, p. 40.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Adeni, Solomon ben Joshua". The Jewish Encyclopedia . New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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