# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simeon-ben-zemah-duran
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:40:46.268Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simeon-ben-zemah-duran"
name: "Simeon ben Zemah Duran"
slug: "simeon-ben-zemah-duran"
description: "Simeon ben Zemah Duran, also Tzemach Duran, known as Rashbatz (רשב\"ץ) or Tashbatz, was a prominent Jewish scholar, rabbinic authority, and polemicist. He was proficient in various fields, including philosophy, mathematics, natural sciences, astronomy, and medicine. Born in Medieval Spain, he fled with his family to Algeria in the aftermath of the 1391 pogroms that devastated the Jewish community of Spain. In 1408, he became the rabbinic leader of Algerian Jewry, earning widespread recognition for his legal rulings in Spain, North Africa, France, and Italy."
tagline: "Rabbinical authority"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1361"
deathDate: "1444"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.760261333333334
  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Дуран, Шимон бен Цемах"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سمعان انا زيما دوران"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim%C3%B3_Ben_Zemah_Duran"
    title: "Simó Ben Zemah Duran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schimon_ben_Tsemach_Duran"
    title: "Schimon ben Tsemach Duran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_ben_Zemah_Duran"
    title: "Simeon ben Zemah Duran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Simón ben Zemah Durán"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شمعون بن صمح دوران"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_ben_Tsemah_Duran"
    title: "Shimon ben Tsemah Duran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "שמעון בן צמח דוראן"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_ben_Cem%C3%A1h_Dur%C3%A1n"
    title: "Simon ben Cemáh Durán"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump