SHABBETHAI BEN MOSES HA-KOHEN:
Rabbi of Semeez (Semetch), near Tikoczin, Russia, in the first half of the eighteenth century. He edited "Minḥat Kohen" (Fürth, 1741), a collection of novellæ to the Talmud by Abraham Broda, Ẓebi Ashkenazi, and Jacob Kohen Poppers (rabbi of Frankfort-on-the-Main), to which he added some of his own.
Bibliography:
- Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 342, No. 1533;
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. i. 133, s.v. Abraham Broda;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 2247;
- Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. p. 694.