McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Chajun, Joseph

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Chajun, Joseph


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the last great rabbi of Portugal, who flourished about 1450-80, belongs to the Jewish literary celebrities on the Peninsula just before the expulsion. He wrote a commentary on the treatise Aboth îìé ãàáåú (Lisbon, 1470), and a commentary on the Psalms, ôøåù òì úäéìéí (Saloniki, 1522, etc.). See First, Bibl. Jud. 1, 160 sq.; Gratz, Gesch. d. Juden, 8, 225 sq. (B. P.)