Hagin Deulacres
Hagin fil Deulacres(Hebrew:חַיִּים בֵּן גְּדַלְיָה דֵּילַקְרִיס,Ḥayyim Gedalyah Deulacres)[note 1]was a 13th-centuryrabbiwho served as the lastPresbyter JudaeorumofEnglandprior to theEdict of Expulsionof 1290. A Jew fromLondon,Hagin was appointed to the position on 15 May 1281, through the intercession of QueenEleanor of Provence.[1]He is not mentioned among the Jewish deportees, and is therefore presumed to have died before the Expulsion.
According toAdolf Neubauer,Hagin may have translated intoFrenchAbraham ibn Ezra's astrological workReshit ḥokhma('The Beginning of Wisdom') in 1273, as well as theImage du mondeofGautier de Metz.[2]
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Jacobs, Joseph (1904)."Hagin Deulacres (Ḥayyim Gedaliah, or Dieulacresse)".InSinger, Isidore;et al. (eds.).The Jewish Encyclopedia.Vol. 6. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 149.
- ^abAdler, H.(1888)."The Chief Rabbis of England".Papers Read at the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition, Royal Albert Hall, London.Vol. 1. Office of the "Jewish Chronicle". pp. 281–271.
- ^Roth, Norman (2016).Medieval Jewish Civilization: An Encyclopedia.London: Routledge. p. 1618.ISBN978-1-351-67697-7.OCLC993757306.
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