| ABRAHAM OF COLOGNE (BEN ALEXANDER) German rabbi; flourished about 1240. He was considered the most eminent pupil of Eleazar of Worms. Solomon ben Adret relates ("Teshubot," i. No. 548) that he saw Abraham when he came to the king of Castile, probably Ferdinand |
| ABRAHAM CONQUE OF HEBRON See Conque (Cuenqui),Abraham, of Hebron. |
| ABRAHAM BEN DANIEL Poet and rabbi; born at Modena in 1511. For several years he was a tutor at Viadana, Modena, Rivarolo, Arezzo, and Forli, and finally he became rabbi at Ferrara. From 1536 to 1552, despite unceasing bodily ailments, he composed |
| ABRAHAM IBN DAUD HALEVI Spanish astronomer, historian, and philosopher; born at Toledo about 1110; died, according to common report, a martyr about 1180. His mother belonged to a family famed for its learning. His chronicle, a work written in 1161 |
