Crescas
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Crescas (Hebrew: קרשקש) is a Jewish family name. 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
- Vidal de Caslar Crescas
- (Don) Vidal Crescas of Perpignan (fr)
[edit] Cresques
- Abraham Cresques (? - 1387), a Jewish cartographer from Palma de Mallorca
- Jehuda Cresques (also Jafudà Cresques; 1350 ? - 1427 ?)
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