Moses ben Isaac ha-Levi Minz (15th century) was a German

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, a disciple of R. Yaakov Weil and contemporary of

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, whom he frequently consulted. He was successively rabbi at

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, and Posen. He is one of the first known Jewish Scholars to have officiated as Rav of a city in Poland.The Rishonim, The Artscroll history series, Pg. 153 In his responsa (No. 114) he mentions a certain Jacob Margolioth of לוקו (

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?), and refers to a case of divorce in Posen in 1444 (Steinschneider gives 1474).

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(''Zeitschrift,'' iii. 387) doubts that Moses ever was at Posen. He suggests that פוזנו (Posen) is a printer's mistake for פיזרו (Pesaro). Moses' responsa (Cracow, 1617) mention also

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, and his cousin

Judah Minz Judah ben Eliezer ha-Levi Minz (c. 1405 – 1508), also known as Mahari Minz, was the most prominent Italian rabbi of his time. As his surname suggests, he immigrated around 1462 from Mainz to Italy. He officiated as rabbi of Padua for forty-seven ...

. Responsum No. 46 contains a dispute over a philological point with

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(comp. M. Wiener in ''Monatsschrift,'' xvi. 390).

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

* Azulai, ''Shem ha-Gedolim,'' i.140; *

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, ''Ḳore ha-Dorot,'' p. 27b; *

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, ''Bibl. Jud.'' ii.380; *

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, ''Cat. Bodl.'' cols. 1946–1947.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Minz, Moses Ben Isaac Ha-Levi 15th-century German rabbis