Shu"t Maharam Alashkar
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Moshe Alashkar
Moshe Alashkar
1466 CE–1542 CE · Acharonim · Spain (medieval)
Rabbi Moshe ben Yitzchak Alashkar (1466-1542) was a Sephardic halakhic authority whose life traced the wanderings of Spanish Jewry after the expulsion. Born in Spain, he studied in his youth at Zamora under Rabbi Shmuel Valensi. When the Jews were expelled in 1492, he made his way to North Africa and settled in Tunis for roughly two decades. Renewed upheaval around 1510 drove him to Patras, in Greece, where he headed a yeshiva, before he moved on to Egypt and served as a rabbinic judge in Cairo from 1522. He spent his final years in Jerusalem, where he died. His collection of responsa, later gathered as Shu"t Maharam Alashkar, records the legal and communal questions of the exile generation; he corresponded with figures such as Levi ibn Habib and Jacob Berab, and was also known as a liturgical poet.
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Spain (medieval)ספרדIberian Peninsula
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Medieval Iberian Peninsula; home to many Rishonim including Nahmanides, Ran, Rashba, and Yosef ibn Habib.
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Avraham Zacuto, Yosef Taitazak, Mahari Berav, Radbaz, Maharalbach
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