ISRAEL KOHEN BEN JOSEPH:

Polish scholar; lived in the second half of the sixteenth century. He edited the anonymous philosophical work "She'elot 'Inyan ha-Neshamah," containing a dialogue between pupil and master on eighteen questions concerning the soul (Lublin, 1566). The work has been translated into Judæo-German by Isaac ben Ḥayyim.

Bibliography:
  • Zunz, Z. G. p. 288;
  • Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 642.
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