Moses ben Isaac ha-Levi Minz (15th century) was a German rabbi

Rabbi

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 and contemporary of Israel Isserlein

Israel Isserlein

Rabbi Israel Isserlein ben Petachia, also Israel Isserlin, Israel of Neustadt, Israel of Marpurk was a Talmudist, and Halakhist, best known for his Terumat HaDeshen, which served as one source for HaMapah, the component of the Shulkhan Arukh by Moses Isserles.- Biography :Even though...

, whom he frequently consulted. He was successively rabbi at Mainz

Mainz

Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...

, Landau

Landau

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, Bamberg

Bamberg

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, and Posen

Poznan

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.

In his responsa (No. 114) he mentions a certain Jacob Margolioth of לוקו (Lucca

Lucca

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?), and refers to a case of divorce in Posen in 1444 (Steinschneider gives 1474). Fränkel

Fränkel

Fränkel This interesting surname is of German and Ashkenazic origins, used as an ethnic or regional name for someone from Franconia , which is a region of south-west Germany, so called because it formed an early Frankish settlement. Thus Frankel is a German and Ashkenazic diminutive of this placename...

 (Zeitschrift, iii. 387) doubts that Moses ever was at Posen. He suggests that פוזנו (Posen) is a printer's mistake for פיזרו (Pesaro). Moses' responsa (Cracow, 1617) mention also Joseph Colon, Israel Isserlein

Israel Isserlein

Rabbi Israel Isserlein ben Petachia, also Israel Isserlin, Israel of Neustadt, Israel of Marpurk was a Talmudist, and Halakhist, best known for his Terumat HaDeshen, which served as one source for HaMapah, the component of the Shulkhan Arukh by Moses Isserles.- Biography :Even though...

, and his cousin Judah Minz. Responsum No. 46 contains a dispute over a philological point with Eliezer Treves (comp. M. Wiener in Monatsschrift, xvi. 390).

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• Azulai
  Chaim Joseph David Azulai
  Chaim Joseph David Azulai ben Isaac Zerachia , commonly known as the Chida , was a Jerusalem born rabbinical scholar, a noted bibliophile, and a pioneer in the publication of Jewish religious writings.- Biography :Azulai was born in Jerusalem, where he received his education...
  
  , Shem ha-Gedolim, i.140;
• David Conforte
  David Conforte
  David Conforte was a Hebrew literary historian born in Salonica, author of the literary chronicle known by the title Ḳore ha-Dorot.-Biography:...
  
  , Ḳore ha-Dorot, p. 27b;
• Julius Fürst
  Julius Fürst
  Julius Fürst , was a Jewish German orientalist.Fürst was a distinguished scholar of Semitic languages and literature...
  
  , Bibl. Jud. ii.380;
• Moritz Steinschneider
  Moritz Steinschneider
  Moritz Steinschneider was a Bohemian bibliographer and Orientalist. He received his early instruction in Hebrew from his father, Jacob Steinschneider , who was not only an expert Talmudist, but was also well versed in secular science...
  
  , Cat. Bodl. cols. 1946-1947.