Jacob ben Abraham Kahana

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Jacob ben Abraham Kahana, rabbinical author; died in Vilna 1826. His father was rabbi at Brestowitz, government of Grodno. Jacob was the son-in-law of Rabbi Issachar of Vilna, brother of the Vilna Gaon. He lived with his father-in-law, and was supported by him for many years, so that he was able to devote his time to the study of the Law; and he became one of the leading Talmudical scholars in Vilna. After Issachar's death Jacob was appointed trustee of the charities of the city.

Jacob was the author of Shittot, a commentary on the tractate Erubin. The work is divided into three parts, the first consisting of novellæ on the Gemara, the second of novellæ on the Tosefta, and the third of novellæ on the corresponding tractates in the Yerushalmi. The manuscript was revised and the work published in Lemberg, 1863, by Raphael Nathan Rabbinowicz.

v • d • e Commentators on the Jerusalem Talmud 16th century: Samuel Jaffe Ashkenazi • Elazar Azkari • Shlomo Sirilo 17th century: Joshua ben Israel Benveniste 18th century Elijah of Fulda • David ben Naphtali Fränkel • Jacob ben Abraham Kahana • Moshe Margoliot • Vilna Gaon 19th century: Yechiel Michel Epstein • Meir Marim • Joseph Saul Nathanson • Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky • Yisroel ben Shmuel of Shklov 20th century: Yechiel Bar-Lev • Yisroel Chaim Daiches • Louis Ginzberg • Chaim Kanievsky • Yitzchok Isaac Krasilschikov • Saul Lieberman Lost commentaries: Maimonides • Menachem Ziemba Unpublished commentaries: Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto • Moshe Feinstein

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This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia article "Ashkenazi, Bezalel" by Gotthard Deutsch and Louis Ginzberg, a publication now in the public domain. Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography: Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 550; idem, Kiryah Ne'emanah, p. 240.