Akiva ha-Kohen

Akiva ben Menaḥem ha-Kohen of Ofen (died 1496) was a Jewish scholar who lived in Hungary and Bohemia in the second half of the fifteenth century. He is the first rabbi in Buda whose name is recorded. Epigraphs of members of the family in Prague refer to him as "Nasi" and "head of the entire Diaspora".

Akiva ha-Kohen

Akiva ben Menaḥem ha-Kohen of Ofen (died 1496) was a Jewish scholar who lived in Hungary and Bohemia in the second half of the fifteenth century. He is the first rabbi in Buda whose name is recorded. Epigraphs of members of the family in Prague refer to him as "Nasi" and "head of the entire Diaspora".