Hiyya al-Daudi (in Hebrew

Hebrew language

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: חייא אלדאודי) was a Jewish

Sephardi Jews

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 prominent rabbi

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, composer and poet of Andalusia

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Hiyya al-Daudi was the son of David, son of Hezekiah Gaon

Hezekiah Gaon

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. He came from Babylonia to the Iberian Peninsula, according to the historian Abraham Zacuto

Abraham Zacuto

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. He was an outstanding Rabbi, and in addition he was a liturgical composer and poet, and served as Advisor

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 to King Afonso I of Portugal. Two of his piyutim (poems) were included in the compilation Betulat bat Yehudah by the scholar Samuel David Luzzatto

Samuel David Luzzatto

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His son Yaish Ibn Yahya (died 1196) was the father of Yahia Ben Rabbi

Yahia Ben Rabbi

Yahia Ben Rabbi, also known as Yahya Ha-Nasi, Yahya Ibn Yaish, Dom Yahia "o Negro" or Don Yahia "El Negro" , known as Lord of Aldeia dos Negros, Portugal - ), and said to be a direct descendent of the Exilarchs of Babylon, was the eponymous ancestor of the "Ibn Yahya" Family...

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Sources

• Ibn Daud, Abraham: Seffer Hakabbala (in Hebrew), Oxford, 1888, page 67.
• Zacuto, Abraham: The book of Lineage, Zacuto Foundation, Tel Aviv, 2005, pp 515 and 534.