Isaac Hayyim Cantarini יצחק חיים הכהן קנטריני
physician, preacher and rabbi of Padua
He took his medical degree at Padua on 11 February 1664 and combined medicine with the rabbinate and preaching all his life. Non-Jews came to hear his sermons. He left Italian sermons, occasional verse and medical prescriptions.
In print: Vindex Sanguinis (Amsterdam, 1680), Pahad Yitzhak (Amsterdam, 1685), Et Kets (Amsterdam, 1710) and the responsa collection Ekev Rav (Venice, 1711).
His Pahad Yitzhak—an account of the pogrom of 1684—is not to be confused with the halakhic encyclopaedia of the same name by his student Isaac Lampronti. The titles match exactly; the books do not resemble each other at all.
On the link with Lampronti the sources differ, and that should be said plainly. The Encyclopaedia Judaica, in its article on Lampronti, lists Cantarini outright among his teachers at Padua. The Jewish Encyclopedia puts it more softly: at Padua Lampronti "enjoyed the intercourse and instruction of the physician Rabbi Isaac Cantarini"—that is, it describes tuition alongside medical study. And the article on Cantarini himself does not name Lampronti as a student at all, noting only that Lampronti included one of his responsa in his work.
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- Encyclopaedia Judaica, “Cantarini” — 1644–1723, rabbi, writer and physician of Padua, list of works; the responsum Lampronti included
- Encyclopaedia Judaica, “Lampronti, Isaac Hezekiah ben Samuel” — Cantarini listed outright among Lampronti's teachers
- Jewish Encyclopedia, “Lampronti, Isaac b. Samuel” — the more cautious wording: “intercourse and instruction” at Padua
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