Moses Jaffe of Bologna
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Moses ben Eliezer Jaffe of Bologna (Hebrew: רבי משה בן אליעזר יפה מבולוניה; died 1480) was a prominent Polish-Italian rabbi.
He was born in Lesser Poland around 1400 to Eliezer ben Meir Jaffe, a German-born rabbi and scholar. In his early years he married Margolioth bat Samuel HaLevi.[citation needed] In the mid-15th-century he moved to Bologna, Italy, where he was the head of the rabbinical court and is mentioned in the "Shalshelet ha-Ḳabbalah" manuscript at St. Petersburg.[1] Jaffe died in Bologna around 1480.[citation needed] His son is Abraham of Bohemia.[citation needed]