Abraham Lévy-Bacrat

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Abraham Lévy-Bacrat (fl. 1492-1507) was a rabbinical author of the beginning of the sixteenth century. Expelled from Spain in 1492, he settled at Tunis, where in 1507 he wrote Sefer ha-Zikkaron, a supercommentary on Rashi. The manuscript remained unprinted till 1845, when it was discovered in a Jewish library in Tunis. The work has several prefaces, one of which, written by the author himself, recounts his sufferings at the time of the expulsion from Spain.

[edit] Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

• David Cazès, Notes Bibliographiques sur la Littérature Juive Tunisienne

[edit] External links

• Jewish Encyclopedia article for Abraham Lévy-Bacrat, by Solomon Schechter and M. Franco.

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.