The Late Geonic Period: Four Major Figures

🕍 The end of the Geonic period, about which we have the most information, includes four extraordinary figures who profoundly shaped the worlds of the Rishonim.

You’re reading Stories from Jewish History, a weekly newsletter exploring Jewish thinkers, events, and artifacts, from the famous to the obscure. Today we get to see the culmination of the long and fruitful, and certainly not uneventful, Geonic era in masterworks of scholarship that proved influential for centuries to come. It’s not without plenty of in…