IBN VERGA, JOSEPH

(d. c.1559)

Turkish scholar, son ofSolomon ibn Verga. When the Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, he fled to Lisbon with his father. Later he emigrated to Turkey, where he served as a rabbi and dayyan in Adrianople. He published his father'sShevet Yehudah, a collection of narratives describing persecutions and disputa-tions, together with supplementary material. He also wrote a study of talmudic principles.