Chagis, Samuel

Chagis, Samuel a Jewish writer, father of Jacob, at one time a rabbi in Fez, Africa, is the author of discourses on the first four books of the Pentateuch, entitled, מבקש י8 8י (Venice, 1596). Besides, he wrote, דבר שמואל, comments on passages of the Midrash Rabba (ibid. eod.). See First, Bibl. Jud. 1, 155 sq.; De Rossi, Dizionario Storico (Germ. transl.), p. 71; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B. P.)