Baruch Uzziel Forti
Italian rabbi and editor
Baruch Uzziel ben Baruch Forti Chaschetto (Hebrew: ברוך עזיאל בן ברוך חזקיטו) was an Italian rabbi and editor, who lived in Ferrara and Mantua in the sixteenth century.
On May 22, 1564, Forti was named Chief Rabbi of Mantua. He is quoted as an authority by several prominent rabbis, including Moses Isserles and Meïr of Padua. Forti edited Isaac Abravanel's Ma'yene ha-Yeshu'ah, to which he added a preface containing Abravanel's biography (Ferrara, 1551), and Moses Alashkar's strictures on Shem-Tov's Sefer ha-Emunot (Ferrara, 1556). He also published an alphabetical index to the Mishneh Torah (Venice, 1586).
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Deutsch, Gotthard; Seligsohn, M. (1903). "Forti (Chaschetto), Baruch Uzziel ben Baruch". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia.
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