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Born	352
Died	c.427
Subjects Of Study	Mishna

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Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi

Jewish scholar

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Asher ben Jehiel

Spanish rabbi

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Aḥa Of Shabḥa

Jewish scholar

Bronze statue of Maimonides, depicted with a beard and wearing a turban, shown from the chest up against a clear blue background.

Moses Maimonides

Jewish philosopher, scholar, and physician

Rashi, from a French postage stamp.

Rashi

French religious scholar

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Yom Ṭov Lipmann ben Nathan ha-Levi Heller

Bohemian rabbi and scholar

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Jacob Israel Emden

Danish rabbi

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Adolf Jellinek

European Jewish rabbi and scholar

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Moses ben Samuel ibn Tibbon

Jewish physician and translator

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Amram bar Sheshna

Jewish scholar

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Louis Ginzberg

Lithuanian-American scholar

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Obadiah of Bertinoro

Italian rabbi and author

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Isaiah ben Judah Loeb Berlin

Hungarian scholar

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Hai ben Sherira

Jewish scholar

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Samuel of Nehardea

Babylonian-Jewish scholar

Frederick II

Frederick II

Holy Roman emperor

Alfred the Great

Alfred

king of Wessex

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Stefan Dušan

emperor of Serbia

Ramanuja statue

Ramanuja

Hindu theologian and philosopher

Chu Hsi, ink on paper, by an unknown artist; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Zhu Xi

Chinese philosopher