Hagahos Maharam Padua
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Maharam of Padua
Maharam of Padua
1482 CE–1565 CE · Acharonim · Katzenelnbogen
Rabbi Meir ben Isaac Katzenellenbogen (c. 1482–1565), known as the Maharam of Padua, took his family name from the German town of Katzenelnbogen, where he was born. As a young man he studied in Prague under Jacob Pollak before continuing to the yeshiva of Judah Minz in Padua, into whose family he married. Succeeding his father-in-law, Abraham Minz, he led the Padua rabbinate for roughly four decades and also served as a rabbi to the community of Venice, which he visited regularly. Widely consulted on questions of Jewish law, he composed about ninety responsa, printed in Venice in 1553. His annotated edition of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Venice, 1550) prompted a rival reprint and a dispute—adjudicated by his relative Moses Isserles, the Rema—that scholars connect to the events surrounding the 1553 burning of the Talmud in Italy.
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