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MORDECAI BEN HILLEL

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 820 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MORDECAI

BEN
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HILLEL
  , a German
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rabbi, who died as a martyr at Nuremberg in 1298 . His
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great legal (Halachic)
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work is usually cited as " the Mordecai," and its value consists in its thorough use of the
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medieval authorities . It acquired wide authority, and was one of the
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sources of the Code of Joseph Caro . Mordecai was also the author of Responsa . See L . Ginzberg in Jew . Ency. ix . 10-13 .

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