EPHRAIM B. GERSHON:
Turkish preacher and physician of the middle of the fifteenth century; lived in Negropont and Constantinople. He was a friend of Mordecai Comtino and Samuel Bueno, for the funeral of whose sister he composed a sermon. His sermons, still extant in manuscript, are interesting as literary and historical documents. He was probably the teacher of Elijah Mizraḥi.
Bibliography:
- Steinschneider, Hebr. Bibl. xvii. 110, 134 et seq.; xix. 30 et seq.
