Isaac Guetta

Isaac Guetta
Born	(1777-06-05)June 5, 1777 Tripoli, Ottoman Tripolitania
Died	February 2, 1857(1857-02-02) (aged 79) Safed, Ottoman Syria
Resting place	Safed Old Jewish Cemetery

Isaac Guetta (Hebrew: יצחק גויטע; June 5, 1777 – February 2, 1857) was a Talmudic scholar and educationalist.

Biography

Isaac Guetta was born in Tripoli, Libya, into a family tracing back to Jews who arrived in the Near East from Huete, Spain. He spent a significant portion of his life in Triest. In his later years, Guetta relocated to the Holy Land, where in Tiberias and Safed he played a pivotal role in establishing Talmudic seminaries.

Guetta authored four volumes of novellæ to the Babylonian Talmud, published in Leghorn (1846–47) and in Vienna (1851–56) under the title Sedeh Yiẓḥaḳ.

His grandson was the Hebrew poet David Ara, author of the collection Ḳol Dawid (Venice, 1880).

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gottheil, Richard; Kayserling, Meyer (1904). "Guetta, Isaac". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 105–106.