David Conforte
David Conforte | |
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דוד קונפורטי | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | c. 1618 Salonica, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | c. 1685 |
| Nationality | Ottoman Empire Jew |
| Notable work(s) | Ḳore ha-Dorot |
| Occupation | Literary historian, Rabbi, Dayan |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Judaism |
David Conforte (c. 1618 – c. 1685) (Hebrew: דוד קונפורטי) was a Hebrew literary historian born in Salonica, author of the literary chronicle known by the title Ḳore ha-Dorot. Conforte was a compiler of Jewish bibliographic material whose chronicle contains information on Sephardic rabbis from the Ottoman Empire and Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries, and relies on the rabbinic chain of tradition via Zacuto, Daud, and Yahya as well as responsa literature.