Mordecai Ben-Hillel
Mordecai Ben-Hillel [1]
of Austria, a pupil of the famous Meir of Rothenburg (q.v.), son-in-law of R. Jechiel of Paris, and brother-in-law of R. Jacob of Corbeil, flourished towards the end of the 13th century, and was martyred in 1310 at Nuremberg. He is the author of the book מרדכי , Mordecai, also called הִמָרְדְּכִי סֵפֶי , the Book Of Mordecai; a treatise on the legal code ( סֵפֶר הִהֲלָכוֹת ), embodying all the laws of the Talmud, which was compiled, revised, corrected, annotated, and supplemented by Isaac Alfasi (q.v.). The Sepher A Mordeci has been printed with the Sepher Hallalachoth (Constantinople, 1509; Venice, 1521-22; Sabionetta, 1524, etc.). It has also been published separately (Venice, 1558; Cracow, 1598, etc.). — Furst, Bibl. Jud. 2:324 sq.; De Rossi, Nizionazrio (Germ. transl.), p. 234; Steinschneider, Cataclogus Libr. Hebr. In Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 1659, etc.; Basnage, Hist. des Juifs (Taylor's transl.), page 685; Ginsburg, in Jacob ben-Chajim ibn-Adonijah's Introduction to the Rabbinic Bible (Lond. 1867), page 76 sq.; Cassel, Leitfadenfiir jiid. Gesch. u. Literatur (Berlin, 1872), page 87; Grutz, Gesch. d. Juden (Berlin, 1873), 7:252 sq.; Zunz, Literaturgeschichte der synagogalen Poesie (Berlin, 1865), page 364; Die Monatstage des Kalendejahres (Berlin, 1872), page 44. (B.P.)
