Hayyim ben Abraham Uziel (Hebrew: חיים בן אברהם עזיאל) was a

Sephardic Jew Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and their descendant ...

scholar and author who flourished in the latter half of the 16th century in the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

. He wrote ''Meḳor Ḥayyim'' (3 vols., Smyrna, n.d.), an ethical work in

Judæo-Spanish Judaeo-Spanish or Judeo-Spanish (autonym , Hebrew script: ), also known as Ladino or Judezmo or Spaniolit, is a Romance language derived from Castilian Old Spanish. Originally spoken in Spain, and then after the Edict of Expulsion spreading t ...

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* 16th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire 16th-century Jews from the Ottoman Empire 16th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire Sephardi Jews from the Ottoman Empire Judaeo-Spanish-language writers {{Judaism-bio-stub