Crescas (Catalan pronunciation:[ˈkɾeskəs], Hebrew: קרשקש) is a Judaeo-Catalan family name, prominent in the former Crown of Aragon. Crescas is a common name among Jews of southern France and Catalonia.[1] There have been a number of scholars and rabbis sharing that surname, including:
Abiathar Crescas, a 15th-century Jewish physician and astrologer, doctor to King John II of Aragon (1458–79)
Astruc Don Crescas
Meshullam ben Machir, Don Bonet Crescas de Lunel, French scholar who settled at Perpignan, where he died in 1306
Hasdai Crescas (c. 1340, Barcelona – 1410/1411), a Catalan Jewish philosopher, halakhist
Israel ben Joseph Halevi Crescas Caslari, known as "Crescas Caslari", an Aragonese-French Jewish physician and poet
Mordecai En Crescas of Orange
Don Crescas Vidal of Perpignan (fr)
Vidal de Caslar Crescas
^Encyclopedia Judaica. Kester Publishing. 1972. pp. Volume 5, pages 1075.
Crescas (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkɾeskəs], Hebrew: קרשקש) is a Judaeo-Catalan family name, prominent in the former Crown of Aragon. Crescas is a common...
Jewish philosophy. Hasdai Crescas came from a family of scholars. He was the grandson of the Talmudist Hasdai ben Judah Crescas, and a disciple of the Talmudist...
who was completely blind before the surgeries. Crescas was a leader of Aragon's Jewish community. "CRESCAS, ABIATHARIBN, HA-KOHEN". Jewish Encyclopedia...
Don Crescas Vidal was a French Talmudist in the first half of the fourteenth century. Vidal was probably born in Spain. Vidal went to Perpignan, France...
natural man. Crescas attempted to show that Aristotelian rationalism was far from infallible. In this, he is a precursor of Baruch Spinoza. Crescas deplores...
century. Hasdai Crescas was a student of Nissim ben Reuben Gerondi, who in turn was a student of Reuben ben Nissim Gerondi. Crescas was a rabbi and the...
in actuality, is that which sustains the specific form — Hasdai Crescas Hasdai Crescas imagines that celestial-body is like Hylé but as matter in actuality...
was rendered a cosmic principle in the philosophical systems of Hasdai Crescas and, through him, of Spinoza. Instead of rendering the creative intellect...
endorsed. In Maimonides' time, his list of tenets was criticized by Hasdai Crescas and Joseph Albo. Albo and the Raavad argued that Maimonides' principles...
possibility that they can be infinite simultaneously? — Hasdai Crescas Hasdai Crescas in "Or Hashem" explains that over the limits of world of finitude...
kazˈlaɾi], Catalan: [izrəˈɛl ˈβen ʒuˈzɛf həˈlɛvi kəzˈlaɾi]), also known as Crescas Caslari and Israel ben Joseph Halevi, was a Jewish physician and poet who...
eyesight with an operation (couching) conducted by his physician Abiathar Crescas, a Jew. The Catalan revolt was pacified in 1472, but until his death in...
Crescas, Jewish money changer and Arnau's longtime friend. Clara Segura as Astruga, Jewish doctor and Jucef's wife. Gabriela Andrada as Dolça Crescas...
The most rigorous medieval critique of Maimonides is Hasdai Crescas' Or Adonai. Crescas bucked the eclectic trend, by demolishing the certainty of the...
Levi ibn al-Tabban (12th century), Jewish grammarian and poet Hasdai Crescas, a Jewish philosopher and author of Or Adonai Amaral (band) (established...
rejected the idea of reincarnation are Saadia Gaon, David Kimhi, Hasdai Crescas, Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi (early 14th century), Joseph Albo, Abraham...
unofficial rabbi. Ferdinand's father John II named the Jewish Abiathar Crescas Court Astronomer.[citation needed] Anti-semitic attitudes increased all...
rejected the idea of reincarnation are Saadia Gaon, David Kimhi, Hasdai Crescas, Yedayah Bedershi (early 14th century), Joseph Albo, Abraham ibn Daud,...
Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera Gersonides Moses of Narbonne Isaac ben Sheshet Hasdai Crescas Joseph Albo Elia del Medigo Judah Minz Isaac Abarbanel Judah Leon Abravanel...
free and consequently God does not have complete knowledge, and Hasdai Crescas, who wrote in Or Adonai that God has complete foreknowledge and consequently...
Isaac Israeli ben Solomon Saadia Gaon Solomon ibn Gabirol Judah Halevi Abraham ibn Daud Maimonides Nachmanides Gersonides Hasdai Crescas Joseph Albo...
Hamekane, the works of ibn Shaprut, Moses ha-Kohen de Tordesillas, and Hasdai Crescas.[citation needed] The name Yeshu is unknown in archeological sources and...
Maimonides' thirteen principles of belief and Crescas' six principles. Albo states that neither Maimonides nor Crescas keeps in view his own fundamental criterion;...
and many synagogues were converted into churches. According to Hasdai Crescas, about 70 Jewish communities were destroyed. During the 15th century, Portugal...
However, some of Maimonides' Jewish successors, including Gersonides and Crescas, conversely held that the question was decidable, philosophically. In the...
philosopher Philo, but he also authored an astonishing variety of other works on Crescas, Maimonides, Averroes, Spinoza, the Kalam, the Church Fathers, and the...
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