David ibn Ya'ish

David ibn Ya'ish
Nationality Spanish
Occupation Writer

David ibn Ya'ish (c 1375) was a Spanish Jewish writer. Moses ha-Kohen de Tordesillas dedicated his work to him.[1][2] Representative of the community of Seville and contemporary of Asher b. Jehiel. He was probably a brother of Solomon b. Abraham ibn Ya'ish and the father of the Solomon b. David ibn Ya'ish mentioned by Judah b. Asher ("Zikron Yehudah," p. 12a).[3]

Notes

  1. The Classical Tradition . Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, Salvatore Settis - 2010 "around 1375 David ibn Yaish of Seville translated a lost Greek work,"
  2. YA'ISH, DAVID B. ABRAHAM IBN: Gotthard Deutsch Meyer Kayserling
  3. http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=8&letter=Y#ixzz1Sx3ud5dF

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