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Moses Kalfo

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “italian jewish scholar”. Today it says “italian jewish scholar who lived at the beginning of the eleventh century at bari”.
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Moses Kalfo was an Italian Jewish scholar who lived at the beginning of the eleventh century at Bari , where he taught at the yeshiva there. He is known through lexicographical explanations cited by Nathan ben Jehiel , author of the Arukh . Nathan ben Jehiel probably studied under him for some time.

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italian jewish scholar

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italian jewish scholar who lived at the beginning of the eleventh century at bari

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