Moses Jaffe of Bologna

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Moses ben Eliezer Jaffe of Bologna (Hebrew: רבי משה בן אליעזר יפה מבולוניה; died 1480) was a prominent Polish-Italian rabbi.

He was born in Lesser Poland around 1400 to Eliezer ben Meir Jaffe, a German-born rabbi and scholar. In his early years he married Margolioth bat Samuel HaLevi, who is described as being a very learned woman.^{[citation needed]} In the mid-15th-century he was removed to Bologna, Italy, where he served as the city's Av Bet Din and is mentioned in the "Shalshelet ha-Ḳabbalah" manuscript at St. Petersburg.^[1] Moses died in Bologna around 1480.^{[citation needed]} His son is Abraham of Bohemia.^{[citation needed]}

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