Karo family

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The Karo family is a distinguished rabbinic dynasty best known for producing leading Jewish legal authorities, most notably Rabbi Joseph Karo, author of the Shulchan Aruch.

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Label Occurrences
Karo family canonical 2

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish family
code of Jewish law
posek
rabbi
rabbinic dynasty
associatedWithPlace Ottoman Palestine
Portugal
Safed
Spain
author Joseph Karo
countryOfActivity Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire
ethnicGroup Sephardi Jew
linked to: Sephardi Jews

Sephardi Jews
family Karo family
fieldOfActivity Halakha
Jewish law
rabbinic leadership
hasInfluenceOn Ashkenazi halakha
Sephardi halakha
hasLegacy influence on Ashkenazi halakhic practice
influence on Sephardi halakhic practice
influence on codification of Jewish law
hasMemberRole halakhic codifier
posek
linked to: Posek

rabbi
influencedBy Beit Yosef
language Hebrew
languageOfScholarship Aramaic
Hebrew
Ladino
legalSystem Halakha
notableFor producing leading Jewish legal authorities
notableMember Joseph Karo
notableWork Beit Yosef
Shulchan Aruch
occupation halakhic authority
rabbinic judge
placeOfActivity Safed
linked to: Tzfat
religiousMovement Orthodox Judaism
Orthodox Judaism
religiousRole rabbinic authorities
religiousTradition Judaism
Judaism
Judaism
timePeriod 16th century
16th century
early modern period

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Karo hasNotableRabbinicFamily Karo family
Joseph Karo family Karo family
subject linked to: Karo family