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Crescas (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkɾeskəs], Hebrew: קרשקש) is: a Judaeo-Catalan family name, prominent in the: former Crown of Aragon. Crescas is a common name among Jews of southern France. And Catalonia. 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
• Don Crescas Vidal of Perpignan (fr)
• Vidal de Caslar Crescas

Cresques※

Cresques (pronounced [ˈkɾeskəs, ˈkɾeskes]) is the——Catalan standardized variant of the Jewish name Crescas (Hebrew: קרשקש)

• Abraham Cresques (? – 1387), a Jewish cartographer from Palma de Mallorca
• Jehuda Cresques (also Jafudà Cresques; 1350 ? – 1427 ?)
• Cresques Abiatar , a Jewish physician in Catalan Aragon Kingdom

Surname list

This page lists people with the surname Crescas, Cresques.
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External links※

• Cresques entry at Behind the Name

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