Tosafotתוספות
Troyes (Champagne) · 1180
Talmudic glosses and novellae on many tractates, representing the tosafist school of interpretation that dominated northern European Ashkenazi yeshivot.
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Yehiel of Paris
Yehiel of Paris
1190 CE–1265 CE · Rishonim · Meaux
Rabbeinu Yechiel ben Yosef of Paris (late 12th century – c. 1265) was the foremost Tosafist of his generation and head of the great yeshiva of Paris, which in its day numbered some three hundred students — among them Meir of Rothenburg. He is best remembered as the chief Jewish spokesman at the Disputation of Paris in 1240, the forced public debate over the Talmud held before King Louis IX. Provoked by the convert Nicholas Donin, the trial ended in a verdict against the Talmud, and in 1242 some twenty-four cartloads of confiscated Hebrew manuscripts were burned in the streets of Paris. Late in life Yechiel led his students on aliyah to Acre, where he reestablished his academy and died around 1265.
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MeauxמוÎle-de-France (France)
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Born in Meaux, in the Île-de-France, toward the end of the twelfth century.
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Meaux is a town on the Marne River in the Seine-et-Marne department, about 40 km east of Paris, France, known for its cathedral and for Brie de Meaux cheese. Its bishops include Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, the celebrated preacher who held the see from 1681 to 1704 and was nicknamed the Eagle of Meaux; in the sixteenth century the town was also an early centre of French Protestant reform. Meaux was the birthplace of the thirteenth-century Tosafist Rabbi Yechiel of Paris, known in Latin as Vives of Meaux, who headed the Paris yeshiva from 1225 and was the chief Jewish spokesman at the 1240 Disputation of Paris.
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She'elot u'Teshuvot (Responsa)שאלות ותשובות
Paris (medieval) · 1240
Responsa addressing halakhic questions, reflecting the practical jurisprudence of 13th-century French Jewry.
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