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Jacob ben Meir Tam

French Judaic scholar
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Born:
1100, Ramerupt, France
Died:
June 9, 1171, Troyes (aged 71)
Subjects Of Study:
Talmud
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Jacob ben Meir Tam (born 1100, Ramerupt, France—died June 9, 1171, Troyes) was a French Jew, an outstanding Talmudic authority of his time, who was responsible for a series of far-reaching decisions governing relationships between Christians and Jews in medieval Europe. He was also one of the most eminent of the French tosaphists (commentators on particular passages in the Talmud). Tam was the grandson of Rashi, the renowned 11th-century Talmudic commentator. As a symbol of Jewry, he was attacked in 1147 by a band of crusaders, who wounded his head five times as revenge for the five wounds that the ...(100 of 261 words)

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