Person · 5168–5268 AM · 1408 CE — 1508 CE
Rabbi Judah Minz of Padua רבי יהודה בן אליעזר הלוי מינץ
forty-seven years rabbi of Padua, teacher of the Maharam Padua
He came from Mainz to Italy about 1462 and led Padua for forty-seven years. Sixteen responsa survive from his archive; the rest perished in the sack of the city in 1509. What survived was gathered by his grandson, Joseph ben Abraham Minz, and printed at Venice in 1553 by his grandson-in-law Meir Katzenellenbogen, the Maharam Padua. Seder Gittin va-Halitzah is also his.
He carried on an open dispute with Elijah Delmedigo, and Rabbi Elijah Mizrachi took his side. His students were his son Abraham Minz and Meir Katzenellenbogen—through them Ashkenazi learning took root in Italy. The years are approximate: about 1408, or about 1405, and 1508.
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Rishonim
- The responsa of Judah Minz, Venice 1553 — the sixteen surviving responsa
Scholarship
- The Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) — the years, the office at Padua, the loss of the archive and the dispute with Delmedigo
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