Elisha Gallico

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Elisha Gallico ben Gabriel (died at Safed about 1583) was Palestinian Jewish Talmudist. He was a pupil of Joseph Caro.

After the death of his master, Gallico was nominated chief of the yeshibah of Safed. He is frequently mentioned in the responsa collection "Abḳat Rokel," in which responsum No. 84 belongs to him. Ḥayyim Benvenisti quotes Gallico's responsa in his "Keneset ha-Gedolah."

Gallico wrote homiletic-allegorical commentaries on 'Ecclesiastes (published during the author's lifetime, Venice, 1577), on the Book of Esther (Venice, 1583), and on the Song of Songs (Venice, 1587).

[edit] References of Jewish Encyclopedia

• Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, p. 223, No. 474;
• Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, i. 28, No. 208;
• Moritz Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 968;
• Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 136.

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