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Concio, Joseph B. Gershon

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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Italian author; lived at Asti and Chieri in the beginning of the seventeenth century. He published several Hebrew poems, including: "Ot le-Ṭobah," twenty-two sentences on Talmudic arguments in the order of the Hebrew alphabet, which appeared together with "Shir le-Siman ha-Parashiyyot" and " Shirim bi-Leshon Ḥidah Meḥubbarim" (Riddles and Their Solution) (Chieri, 1627); "Dibre Ester," allegorical commentary to Esther, together with "Zeh ha-Shulḥan" (ib. 1628); "Ma'agal Ṭob," seventeen sentences of the Talmud (ib. 1627-28), in which he was assisted by his son Abraham as printer or editor (Steinschneider, "Cat. Bodl." col. 2866); "Shir Yehudit" (Asti, 1628); "Mar'eh Ḥayyim," halakic matter in verse (Chieri, 1629); "Meḳom Binah," comments on certain passages in Proverbs (ib. 1630); "Teḥillat Dabar," a treatise on logic, preserved in a Cod. Almanzi; besides a collection of poems, reviewed by Steinschneider in "Ha-Asif," 2:225. Concio also wrote in Italian, as two poems, "Cinque Enimmi" (Asti, 1628) and "Canto di Judit" (1628), bear witness.

Bibliography:
  • De Rossi, Dizionario, p. 86;
  • idem, Libri Stampati, pp. 40, 59;
  • Steinschneider, Hebr. Bibl. 17:14; 20:129,130; 21:74;
  • idem, in Ha-Asif, 2:225;
  • idem, in Monatsschrift, 43:320.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Concio, Joseph B. Gershon'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​c/concio-joseph-b-gershon.html. 1901.
 
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