Mordecai Karmi

Rabbi Mordecai Crémieux
Personal
Born	1749 (1749) Carpentras, Provence
Died	May 22, 1825(1825-05-22) (aged 75–76)
Religion	Judaism

Mordecai ben Abraham Crémieux (Hebrew: מרדכי בן אברהם כרמי, romanized: Mordekhai ben Avraham Karmi; 1749 – May 22, 1825) was a rabbi at Aix, Provence. He was the author of Ma'amar Mordekhai ('Treatise of Mordecai'), a commentary on the Shulḥan Arukh, Oraḥ Ḥayyim, in two parts (Leghorn, 1784). He also financed the first siddur according to the Provençal rite.^[1]

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Rhine, A. (1903). "Crémieux, Mordecai ben Abraham". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 348.

^ Horowitz, Yehoshua (2007). "Karmi (Crémieux)". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.