Moses Kalfo
Moses Kalfo, who lived at the beginning of the eleventh century at Bari, was an Italian Jewish scholar; he taught at the yeshiva there.
He is known through lexicographical explanations cited by Nathan ben Jehiel, author of the Aruk. Nathan ben Jehiel probably studied under him for some time.
References
- Marco Mortara, Indice, p. 9;
- Hermann Vogelstein and Paul Rieger, Geschichte der Juden in Rom, i. 358, 362;
- Isaac Hirsch Weiss, Dor, iv. 308, note 9;
- Eliakim Carmoly, in Revue Orientale, ii. 116.
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