Avraham Rovigo
1650 CE–1713 CE · Acharonim · Modena
Italian kabbalist of Modena (c.1650–1713), a disciple of R. Moshe Zacuto. In 1702 he emigrated to the Land of Israel and founded a yeshiva in Jerusalem, and for years served the Jerusalem rabbinate as a communal emissary across Europe. He was a lifelong friend of R. Benjamin ha-Kohen Vitale. Rovigo was also a leading figure in the moderate Sabbatean current of his time — having become convinced of Shabbetai Tzvi's messianic claims — and the Jerusalem yeshiva he founded drew many who shared that belief.
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ModenaמודנהNorthern Italy — Este duchy
What they did here
Born in Modena, his lifelong base in northern Italy.
About Modena
Modena under the Este dynasty hosted a thriving Jewish community; R. Aaron Berechiah of Modena (d. 1639) authored Ma'avar Yabok here, the foundational text for Sephardic-Italian mourning ritual.
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Avraham Rovigo’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Jewish world
- Rabbi Yaakov Sasportas· 1610 CE–1698 CE
- R. Shalom ben Yosef al-Shabazi· 1619 CE–1720 CE
- Avraham Miguel Cardozo· 1626 CE–1706 CE
- Abraham Abele Gombiner· 1635 CE–1682 CE
- Yair Chaim Bacharach· 1638 CE–1702 CE
- R. Eliyahu HaKohen of Aleppo· 1640 CE–1729 CE
- Rabbi Shabsai Bass· 1641 CE–1718 CE
- Nathan of Gaza (Avraham Nathan ben Elisha Ashkenazi)· 1643 CE–1680 CE
- Nehemiah Hiyya Hayon· 1650 CE–1730 CE
- Rabbi Eliyahu Kovo· 1650 CE–1689 CE
- Benjamin ben Eliezer ha-Kohen Vitale· 1651 CE–1730 CE
- Rabbi David Nieto· 1654 CE–1728 CE
- Zvi Ashkenazi· 1656 CE–1718 CE
- Yehudah Rosanes· 1657 CE–1727 CE
- R. Hezekiah da Silva· 1659 CE–1698 CE
- Eliyahu Spira· 1660 CE–1712 CE
- Solomon Ayllon· 1660 CE–1728 CE
- R. Chaim Abulafia· 1660 CE–1744 CE
- David Oppenheim· 1664 CE–1736 CE
- Rabbi Meir Eisenstadt· 1670 CE–1744 CE
- Rabbi Yechezkel Katzenellenbogen· 1670 CE–1749 CE
- Yeshayahu Mordechai Bassan· 1673 CE–1739 CE
- Rabbi Yonah Landsofer· 1678 CE–1712 CE
- Yosef Ergas· 1685 CE–1730 CE
Scientists
Christian world
Hindu world
Islamic world
Luminaries & Explorers world
Buddhist world
Rulers world
- Osei Tutu· –1717 CE
- Mustafa II· 1664 CE–1703 CE
- Tokugawa Tsunayoshi· 1646 CE–1709 CE
- Louis XIV· 1638 CE–1715 CE
- Kangxi Emperor· 1654 CE–1722 CE
- Feodor III· 1661 CE–1682 CE
- Ahmed II· 1643 CE–1695 CE
- Mehmed IV· 1642 CE–1693 CE
- Suleiman II· 1642 CE–1691 CE
- Peter the Great· 1672 CE–1725 CE
- Aurangzeb· 1618 CE–1707 CE
- Po'pay (Popé)· 1630 CE–1692 CE
- Catherine I· 1684 CE–1727 CE
- Metacomet (King Philip)· 1638 CE–1676 CE
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