Jacob ben Chayyim Comprat Vidal Farissol (born c. 1405 - fl. 1422) was a French Jewish scholar of the early 15th century. Born in Avignon, he was a liturgical poet and the grandson of Vitalis Farissol, who had been a chief bailiff of Avignon in 1400.[1] Farissol was a pupil of Solomon ben Menahem, or "Frat Maimon," under whose supervision he composed, at the age of seventeen, a commentary to Judah ha-Levi's "Cuzari" entitled "Bet Ya'aḳob," which was published in 1422.[2][3] Farissol is also likely identical with the liturgical poet mentioned by Zunz ("Literaturgesch." p. 525) under the name of "Comprad Farissol," who flourished at Avignon in 1453. The name "Farissol" was a very common one among the Jews of Provence.[4]
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edit- ^ Renan, Ernest; Neubauer, Adolphe (1893). Les Ecrivains Juifs Français. Paris, France. p. 755.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "FARISSOL, JACOB BEN ḤAYYIM". Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias. Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971. Archived from the original on 2019-01-08. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
- ^ Colette, Sirat (1985). A history of Jewish philosophy in the Middle Ages. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press. p. 398. ISBN 0521260876. OCLC 11621450.
- ^ Singer, Isidore; Adler, Cyrus (1903). The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Volume 5. Funk & Wagnalls Company. p. 344.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Richard Gottheil and S. Khan (1901–1906). "Jacob Ben Hayim Comprat Vidal Farissol". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.