IBN WAḲAR (WAḲḲAR, HUACAR, HUCAR, ), JUDAH BEN ISAAC OF CORDOVA:

Tax-collector for, and representative and traveling companion (about 1320) of, the infante Don Juan Manuel; the author of "Conde Lucanor." He was a very pious man, an admirer of R. Jehiel b. Asher of Toledo, and punished relentlessly all moral and religious offenses.

Bibliography:
  • Asher b. Jehiel's Responsa, xvii. 8, xviii. 13;
  • Grätz, Gesch. vii. 291 et seq.
G. M. K.
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