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Hachmei Provence

Hachmei Provence refers to the hekhamim, "sages" or "rabbis", of Provence, now Occitania in France, which was a great center for Rabbinical Jewish scholarship in the times of the Tosafists. The singular form is hakham, a Sephardic and Hachmei Provençal term for a rabbi.

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NarbonneMoses ha-DarshanMakhir of Narbonne and his great family • Moses ben Joseph ben Merwan ha-LeviJoseph Kimhi and sons David Kimhi and Moses KimhiAbraham ben Isaac of NarbonneIsaac ben Merwan ha-LeviAaron ben Jacob ha-Kohen LunelZerachiah ha-Levi of Girona the Baal haMaorAbraham ben Nathan haYarhi (Yareah is Hebrew for moon, which is Lune in French, the source for the city-name Lunel) • Yonatan HaKohen of Lunel • Abba Mari haYarhi, and his son IsaacMeshullam ben JacobAsher ben Meshullam • Rava Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi) (disputed) MontpellierSolomon ben Abraham of Montpellier who led the movement against Maimonides Rest of ProvenceAbraham ben David known as the RABaD or RABaD III • His son Isaac the Blind, a famous KabbalistMenachem MeiriNathan ben Meir of TrinquetailleShem-Tob ben Isaac of Tortosa • The famous family Ibn TibbonCaslari family of CarpentrasBonet de LattesJacob AnatoliGersonidesGerson ben Solomon CatalanAbraham BedersiJedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi Members of the Kalonymus FamilyKalonymus ben Kalonymus of AvignonKalonymus ben Todros ==References==
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