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BERTINORO, OBADIAH

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 813 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BERTINORO, See also:OBADIAH , Jewish commentator of the Mishnah, died in See also:Jerusalem about 1500. Bertinoro much improved the status of the See also:Jews in the See also:Holy See also:Land; before his See also:migration thither the Jews of See also:Palestine were in a miserable See also:condition of poverty and persecution. His commentary on the Mishnah is the most useful of all See also:helps to the understanding of that See also:work. It is printed in most See also:Hebrew See also:editions of the Mishnah. Surenhusius, in his Latin edition of the last-named See also:code (See also:Amsterdam 1698–1703), translated Bertinoro's commentary.

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