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'''Aaron Cupino''' was a talmudist and head of a yeshiva at [[Constantinople]], who flourished about the close of the seventeenth century.
'''Aaron Cupino''' was a [[talmud]]ist and head of a yeshiva at [[Constantinople]], who flourished about the close of the 17th-century.


He was a pupil of [[Ḥayyim Shabbethai]] at [[Salonica]], whence he afterward moved to Constantinople. Here he founded a Talmudic school, from which were graduated several pupils who afterward acquired notable reputations, among whom were [[Aaron ben Isaac Sason]] and [[Isaac Raphael Alfandari]]. Aaron Cupino maintained a scholarly correspondence with R. [[Chaim Benveniste|Benveniste]] (1601–76), the author of the ''Keneset haGedolah'', and with several other scholars.
He was a pupil of [[Ḥayyim Shabbethai]] at [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] Salonica (now [[Thessaloniki]] in [[Greece]]), whence he afterward moved to Constantinople. Here he founded a Talmudic school, from which were graduated several pupils who afterward acquired notable reputations, among whom were [[Aaron ben Isaac Sason]] and [[Isaac Raphael Alfandari]]. Aaron Cupino maintained a scholarly correspondence with R. [[Chaim Benveniste|Benveniste]] (1601–76), the author of the ''Keneset haGedolah'', and with several other scholars.


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Revision as of 16:39, 23 January 2021

Aaron Cupino was a talmudist and head of a yeshiva at Constantinople, who flourished about the close of the 17th-century.

He was a pupil of Ḥayyim Shabbethai at Ottoman Salonica (now Thessaloniki in Greece), whence he afterward moved to Constantinople. Here he founded a Talmudic school, from which were graduated several pupils who afterward acquired notable reputations, among whom were Aaron ben Isaac Sason and Isaac Raphael Alfandari. Aaron Cupino maintained a scholarly correspondence with R. Benveniste (1601–76), the author of the Keneset haGedolah, and with several other scholars.

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSinger, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Aaron Cupino". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.