Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph

Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph (c. 1515 – c. 1587) ( Hebrew : גדליה בן יוסף אבן יחייא ) was a talmudist born at Imola , Italy . He studied in the yeshibah at Ferrara under Jacob Finzi and Abraham Rovigo and Israel Rovigo . In 1549 he settled in Rovigo , where he remained until 1562, in which year the burning of the Talmud took place in Italy. He then went to Codiniola , and three years later to Salonica , whence he returned in 1567 to his native town. Expelled with other Jews by Pope Pius V , and suffering a loss of 10,000 gold pieces, he went to Pesaro , and thence to Ferrara, where he remained till 1575. During the ensuing eight years he led a wandering life, and finally settled in Alexandria , which is probably where he died in 1587. His chief work was the Sefer Shalshelet ha-Ḳabbalah, called also Sefer Yaḥya, on which he labored for more than forty years. This work is not without defects, having suffered either by reason of the author's itinerant mode of life or through faulty copying of the original manuscript. Its contents are as follows: History and genealogy of the Jews from the time of Moses until that of Moses Norzi (1587) Account of the heavenly bodies, Creation, the soul, magic, and evil spirits History of the peoples among which the Jews have dwelt, and a description of the unhappy fate of the author's coreligionists up to his time. The value of this work is, however, lessened considerably by the facts that the writer has included many oral narratives which he gathered partly in his home, partly in Salonica and Alexandria, and that he often lacks the ability to distinguish truth from fiction. The Shalshelet ha-Ḳabbalah was published at Venice , 1587; Cracow , 1596; Amsterdam , 1697; Zolkiev , 1802, 1804; Polonnoye , 1814; and Lemberg , 1862. Members of the Charlap family claim to be descended from Gedaliah, and through him, to the Exilarchs of Babylonia who claimed descent from King David . Well-known descendants include: Bill Charlap , jazz pianist Jane Alexander , actress and former Head of National Endowment for the Arts (perhaps only related through marriage) Albert "Tick Tock" Tannenbaum , protege of gangster Louis Lepke Yankel Rosenbaum , murdered in the Crown Heights Riot Louis Proyect , Marxist scholar and activist Dick Hyman , composer Abram Leon Sachar , author of "A History of the Jews" and founding president of Brandeis University Dorit Beinisch , Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Israel

Gedaliah (Eanes/Ben Yohanan) ibn Yahya ben Joseph (c. 1515 – c. 1587) ( ) was a talmudist born at Imola , Italy . He studied in the yeshivah at Ferrara under Jacob Finzi and Abraham Rovigo and Israel Rovigo . In 1549 he settled in Rovigo , where he remained until 1562, in which year the burning of the Talmud took place in Italy. He then went to Codiniola , and three years later to Salonica , whence he returned in 1567 to his native town. Expelled with other Jews by Pope Pius V , and suffering a loss of 10,000 gold pieces, he went to Pesaro , and thence to Ferrara, where he remained till 1575. During the ensuing eight years he led a wandering life, and finally settled in Alexandria , which is probably where he died in 1587. His chief work was the Sefer Shalshelet ha-Ḳabbalah, called also Sefer Yaḥya, on which he labored for more than forty years. This work is not without defects, having suffered either by reason of the author's itinerant mode of life or through faulty copying of the original manuscript. Its contents are as follows: History and genealogy of the Jews from the time of Moses until that of Moses Norzi (1587) Account of the heavenly bodies, Creation, the soul, magic, and evil spirits History of the peoples among which the Jews have dwelt, and a description of the unhappy fate of the author's coreligionists up to his time. The value of this work is, however, lessened considerably by the facts that the writer has included many oral narratives which he gathered partly in his home, partly in Salonica and Alexandria, and that he often lacks the ability to distinguish truth from fiction. Loeb has argued that it is more accurate than many have supposed it to be. The Shalshelet ha-Ḳabbalah was published at Venice , 1587; Cracow , 1596; Amsterdam , 1697; Zolkiev , 1802, 1804; Polonnoye , 1814; and Lemberg , 1862. Members of the Charlap family claim to be descended from Gedaliah, and through him, to the Exilarchs of Babylonia who claimed descent from King David . In the Jewish Encyclopedia entry the reference for this is apparently J. In this type of subject matter there is definitely no "proof."

Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph ( Hebrew : גדליה אבן יחיא בן יוסף; c. 1515 – 1587) was a 16th-century Italian Talmudist and Biblical chronologist chiefly known for his Biblical Chronology "Shalshelet HaḲabbalah".

Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph ( Hebrew : גדליה אבן יחיא בן יוסף ; c. 1515 – 1587) was a 16th-century Italian Talmudist of the prominent Yahya family chiefly known for his chronology of the Bible and Jewish history up to his own time, The Chain of Oral Tradition ( Hebrew : שלשלת הקבלה , romanized : Shalsheleṯ haqabbālā ).