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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 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 154,493 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Joseph Karo is the 1,327th most popular writer (down from 1,116th in 2019), the 433rd most popular biography from Spain (down from 332nd in 2019) and the 41st 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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  • 58.66

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joseph Karo ranks 1,327 out of 5,755. Before him are Cees Nooteboom, Don DeLillo, Konstantin Simonov, Xavier de Maistre, Siegfried Kracauer, and Liang Qichao. After him are Vladimir Bartol, Georges Rodenbach, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Joanot Martorell, Reinaldo Arenas, and Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1488, Joseph Karo ranks 10. Before him are Lütfi Pasha, Germaine of Foix, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Ferdinand Columbus, Bartolommeo Bandinelli, and Sebastian Münster. After him are Charles II, Duke of Savoy, Otto Brunfels, Johannes Magnus, Jan Tarnowski, Heinrich Glarean, and Gustav Trolle. Among people deceased in 1575, Joseph Karo ranks 6. Before him are Pieter Aertsen, Claude of France, Antonis Mor, Heinrich Bullinger, and Matthias Flacius. After him are Jan Matsys, Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, Francesco Maurolico, Sophia Jagiellon, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Corneille de Lyon, and Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Joseph Karo ranks 433 out of 2,932. Before him are García Ramírez of Navarre (1110), Josefa de Óbidos (1630), Petrus Gonsalvus (1537), Rafael Moneo (1937), Pedro Sánchez (1972), and Andrés de Urdaneta (1498). After him are Joanot Martorell (1415), José Antonio Camacho (1955), Teresa Berganza (1933), Eleanor of Navarre (1426), Galswintha (540), and Philip Prospero, Prince of Asturias (1657).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Joseph Karo ranks 41. Before him are Mercè Rodoreda (1908), Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867), Joan Fuster (1922), Fernando Arrabal (1932), Rosalía de Castro (1837), and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (1939). After him are Joanot Martorell (1415), Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1951), Don Juan Manuel (1282), Rafael Alberti (1902), Ausiàs March (1400), and Mary of Jesus of Ágreda (1602).

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