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Elijah Menahem Ben Moses
c. 1220–1284FinancierEurope · 1220Most named place: London
Elijah Menahem Ben Moses was a prominent English financier, physician and rabbi from London.
He was one of the most active English financiers whose clients were many nobles and members of the royal house. Son of R. Moses of London, he was one of the greatest and most famous of the pre-exilic rabbis of England. He is an author of a commentary of the Mishnah and on the Passover Haggadah.
Known as a competent physician, he was on one occasion called upon to attend the count of Flanders. His brother Hagin (Ḥayyim) of Lincoln was an archpresbyter of the Jews of England in a period from 1257 to 1280.