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Joseph ben Ḥayim de Vitali

1528

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Joseph ben Ḥayim de Vitali

16th Century

Joseph ben Ḥayim de Vitali was a scribe active in the Romaniote Jewish community in Greece in the first half of the sixteenth century.

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