Simeon ben Zemah Duran

Simeon ben Zemah Duran, also Tzemach Duran (1361–1444; Hebrew: שמעון בן צמח דוראן), known as Rashbatz (רשב"ץ) or Tashbatz, was a prominent Jewish scholar, rabbinic authority, and polemicist.^[1] He was proficient in various fields, including philosophy, mathematics, natural sciences, astronomy, and medicine.^[1] Born in Medieval Spain, he fled with his family to Algeria in the aftermath of the 1391 pogroms that devastated the Jewish community of Spain.^[1] In 1408, he became the rabbinic leader of Algerian Jewry, earning widespread recognition for his legal rulings in Spain, North Africa, France, and Italy.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Mazuz, Haggai (2021), Lieberman, Phillip I. (ed.), "Jewish-Muslim Polemics", The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 5: Jews in the Medieval Islamic World, The Cambridge History of Judaism, vol. 5, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 959–960, doi:10.1017/9781139048873.036, ISBN 978-0-521-51717-1, retrieved 2024-09-20

[Mazuz-2021-1] Mazuz, Haggai (2021), Lieberman, Phillip I. (ed.), "Jewish-Muslim Polemics", The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 5: Jews in the Medieval Islamic World, The Cambridge History of Judaism, vol. 5, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 959–960, doi:10.1017/9781139048873.036, ISBN 978-0-521-51717-1, retrieved 2024-09-20

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