Tachov (Tachau)תאקו

Bohemia

Tachau (Czech Tachov), a town in western Bohemia (today the Czech Republic), was the home of Rabbi Moses ben Hisdai Taku, a thirteenth-century Tosafist and polemicist. In his treatise Ketav Tamim he argued forcefully against both the philosophical rationalism of Maimonides and Saadia Gaon and the esoteric theology of the German Pietists, defending a literalist reading of Scripture and aggadah.

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