Judah ben Samuel ha-Kohen Cantarini
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Judah (Leon) ben Samuel (Simon) ha-Kohen Cantarini (ca. 1650, Padua—April 28, 1694, Padua) was an Italian physician and rabbi. He had a large practise among the Christian as well as the Jewish population of that city, visiting the poorer of his patients four times a day without charge. Cantarini founded a yeshiva in the synagogue of the Ashkenazim, where he taught the Talmud, in which he was very learned. He also officiated as preacher. A letter of his is extant, addressed to Jacob Lebet-Levi, and dealing with a legal quarrel in which Cantarini was involved. This letter, which testifies to his thorough knowledge of the Talmud, is written in a very pure and classical Hebrew. At Cantarini's death his nephew, Isaac Chayyim Cantarini, wrote his obituary.
This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia article "Cantarini, Judah (Leon) ben Samuel (Simon) Ha-Kohen" by Louis Ginzberg and Israel Berlin, a publication now in the public domain.
