Moses of Évreux was a French tosafist, and author of a siddur

Siddur

A siddur is a Jewish prayer book, containing a set order of daily prayers. This article discusses how some of these prayers evolved, and how the siddur, as it is known today has developed...

, who flourished at Évreux

Évreux

Évreux is a commune in the Eure department, of which it is the capital, in Haute Normandie in northern France.-History:In late Antiquity, the town, attested in the fourth century CE, was named Mediolanum Aulercorum, "the central town of the Aulerci", the Gallic tribe then inhabiting the area...

 in Normandy in the first half of the thirteenth century, and was the older brother and teacher of the tosafist Samuel of Évreux

Samuel of Évreux

Samuel of Évreux was a French tosafist of the thirteenth century, the younger brother and student of Moses of Évreux, author of the tosafot of Évreux. He is identified by Gross with Samuel ben Shneor Samuel of Évreux was a French tosafist of the thirteenth century, the younger brother and student...

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Gross identifies him with Moses ben Shneor, the teacher of the author of Sefer ha-Gan, a commentary on the Pentateuch. Others have generally supposed to him to be the son of Yom-Ṭov, referred to in Elijah Mizraḥi's responsa (No. 82).

The Tosafot of Évreux, much used by tosafists, was his work. He is quoted in the tosafot on Berakot, and his name is frequently written. His tosafot are called also Shiṭṭah of Évreux. Moses wrote his tosafot on the margin of a copy of Isaac Alfasi

Isaac Alfasi

for other Al-Fasi's see Al-Fasi disambiguationIsaac ben Jacob Alfasi ha-Cohen - also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym Rif , was a Talmudist and posek...

, whose authority he invoked.

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

• Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, No. 1118;
• Zunz, Z. G. p. 39;
• Carmoly, Ben Chananja 1861, p. 195;
• Gross, Gallia Judaica, p. 40;
• Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 1814.