WRITER

Joseph Karo

1488 - 1575

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Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, also spelled Yosef Caro, or Qaro (Hebrew: יוסף קארו; 1488 – March 24, 1575, 13 Nisan 5335 A.M.), was a prominent Sephardic Jewish rabbi renowned as the author of the last great codification of Jewish law, the Beit Yosef, and its popular analogue, the Shulhan Arukh. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Karo has received more than 173,918 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Joseph Karo is the 1,089th most popular writer (up from 1,324th in 2019), the 359th most popular biography from Spain (up from 433rd in 2019) and the 38th most popular Spanish Writer.

Joseph Karo was a rabbi and legal scholar who wrote the Shulchan Aruch, which is a compilation of Jewish law.

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  • 2.43

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joseph Karo ranks 1,089 out of 7,302. Before him are John Berger, Roberto Bolaño, Ivan Cankar, Dylan Thomas, Ruy González de Clavijo, and E. M. Forster. After him are Nathalie Sarraute, Pierre Louÿs, Dositej Obradović, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Fernando Arrabal, and Michael Connelly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1488, Joseph Karo ranks 9. Before him are Lütfi Pasha, Ulrich von Hutten, Germaine of Foix, Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, and Sebastian Münster. After him are Ferdinand Columbus, Charles II, Duke of Savoy, Johannes Magnus, Jan Tarnowski, Otto Brunfels, and Heinrich Glarean. Among people deceased in 1575, Joseph Karo ranks 2. Before him is Pieter Aertsen. After him are Jan Matsys, Matthias Flacius, Heinrich Bullinger, Claude of France, Antonis Mor, Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, Sophia Jagiellon, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Francesco Maurolico, Federico Commandino, and Annibale Padovano.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Joseph Karo ranks 359 out of 3,355. Before him are Al-Bakri (1014), Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (1907), Queen Letizia of Spain (1972), Garcilaso de la Vega (1501), Ruy González de Clavijo (1400), and José Sanjurjo (1872). After him are Fernando Arrabal (1932), Ferdinand Columbus (1488), Gonzalo Pizarro (1510), Juana Enríquez (1425), José María Aznar (1953), and Fernando Torres (1984).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Joseph Karo ranks 38. Before him are Prudentius (348), Juan Antonio Villacañas (1922), Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867), Benito Pérez Galdós (1843), Garcilaso de la Vega (1501), and Ruy González de Clavijo (1400). After him are Fernando Arrabal (1932), Bernardino de Sahagún (1499), Rosalía de Castro (1837), Mercè Rodoreda (1908), Jacint Verdaguer (1845), and Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1951).

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