Hai Gaon

Hai Gaon ( = Hiya Hai, Hai Gaon ben Sherira; well Haj or Chai; * 939, † March 28, 1038 ) was to Pumbedita Gaon in Babylonia as his father's successor Sherira Gaon.

He is one of the most important Geonim ever worked as Dezisor ( halakhic monographs, responsa ) and wrote mainly in Arabic.

His Mishnah commentary is lost.

Literature (selection )

  • Solomon Judah Rapoport: Bikkurei ha - ittim, 1830/31
  • Abraham Harkavy: studies and communications Petersburg 1879
  • J. Müller: Introduction to the Responsa of the Babylonian Geonim, 1891
  • Louis Ginzberg: Geonica, 1909
  • JN Epstein: The gaonäische comment to order Tohoroth, 1916
  • Simon Dubnow: World history of the Jewish people, Berlin 1925 et seq Bd.III
  • Salomon Wininger: 1925 ff, Vol II, Article Hai
  • Samuel Atlas: Article HAJ GAON, in: Jewish Encyclopedia, Berlin 1927, Vol II
  • B. Lewin: Ozar hageonim, 1928
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