Samuel ben Isaac de Uçeda

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Rabbi Samuel ben Isaac de Uçeda (also Shmuel de Uzeda)[1] was a Jewish commentator and preacher. Born at Safed in the first quarter of the sixteenth century, his name, Uçeda, originally was derived from the town Uceda in the archbishopric of Toledo. He was a pupil of Isaac Luria and Hayyim Vital, with whom he studied kabbalah, and became rabbi and preacher in Safed and, later, in Constantinople.

Works

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Samuel was the author of the following works:

References

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  1. ^ "Sefer Chasidim / Midrash Shmuel / Pirkei Avot – Shanghai". March 2, 2011. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
  2. ^ Ronald L. Eisenberg (2014). Essential Figures in Jewish Scholarship. Jason Aronson. p. 208. Samuel Uceda is best known for his Midrash Shmuel, ... Pirkei Avot
  •   This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainWilhelm Bacher and Meyer Kayserling (1901–1906). "Uçeda, Samuel ben Israel de". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. It has the following bibliography:
    • Conforte, Ḳore ha-Dorot, pp. 42a, 48a;
    • Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, i. 172;
    • De Rossi-Hamberger, Hist. Wörterb. p. 254;
    • Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. p. 2494;
    • Fürst, Bibl. Jud. iii. 44.W. B. M. K.