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Crescas ([ˈkɾeskəs, ˈkɾeskas], 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 ?)

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    Crescas Wikipedia
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