JOSHUA JOSEPH BEN DAVID HALEVI:

Rabbi of Venice and Hebrew poet; lived in the seventeenth century. He composed elegies ("ḳinot") on the deaths of Samuel Aboab and Moses Zacuto (Venice, 1694), and one, entitled "Kos Tanḥumin," on the death of Moses Levi Majo, rabbi of Venice (ib. 1707).

Bibliography:
  • Nepi-Ghirondi, Toledot Gedole Yisrael, p. 171;
  • Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 1555.
S. S. M. Sel.
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