Crescas

Crescas (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkɾeskəs], Hebrew: קרשקש) is a Judaeo-Catalan family name, prominent in the former Crown of Aragon. Crescas is a common name among Jews of southern France and Catalonia.^[1] There have been a number of scholars and rabbis sharing that surname, including:

Abiathar Crescas, a 15th-century Jewish physician and astrologer, doctor to King John II of Aragon (1458–79)
Astruc Don Crescas
Meshullam ben Machir, Don Bonet Crescas de Lunel, French scholar who settled at Perpignan, where he died in 1306
Hasdai Crescas (c. 1340, Barcelona – 1410/1411), a Catalan Jewish philosopher, halakhist
Israel ben Joseph Halevi Crescas Caslari, known as "Crescas Caslari", an Aragonese-French Jewish physician and poet
Mordecai En Crescas of Orange
Don Crescas Vidal of Perpignan (fr)
Vidal de Caslar Crescas

Cresques

Cresques (pronounced [ˈkɾeskəs, ˈkɾeskes]) is the Catalan standardized variant of the Jewish name Crescas (Hebrew: קרשקש)

Abraham Cresques (? – 1387), a Jewish cartographer from Palma de Mallorca
Jehuda Cresques (also Jafudà Cresques; 1350 ? – 1427 ?)
Cresques Abiatar , a Jewish physician in Catalan Aragon Kingdom

Surname list

This page lists people with the surname Crescas, Cresques.
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