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Aaron Cupino

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Aaron Cupino was a talmudist and head of a yeshiva at Constantinople, who flourished about the close of the seventeenth century.

He was a pupil of Ḥayyim Shabbethai at Salonica, whence he afterward moved to Constantinople. Here he founded a Talmudic school, from which were graduated several pupils who afterward acquired notable reputations, among whom were Aaron ben Isaac Sason and Isaac Raphael Alfandari. Aaron Cupino maintained a scholarly correspondence with R. Benveniste (1601–76), the author of the Keneset haGedolah, and with several other scholars.

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSinger, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Aaron Cupino". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.