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OBADIAH BERTINORO

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 813 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OBADIAH BERTINORO  , Jewish commentator of the Mishnah, died in Jerusalem about 1500 . Bertinoro much improved the status of the Jews in the
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Holy
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Land; before his
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migration thither the Jews of
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Palestine were in a miserable condition of poverty and persecution . His commentary on the Mishnah is the most useful of all helps to the understanding of that
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work . It is printed in most
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Hebrew
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editions of the Mishnah . Surenhusius, in his Latin edition of the last-named code (Amsterdam 1698–1703), translated Bertinoro's commentary .

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