I am looking for a printable picture or depiction of the likeness (a
drawing) of "Rabbi Josef Karo of Safed."  He lived in the late 1400's
to 1500's.  Thank you.

Hello Steph1-ga,

Thank you for your question.

I was able to locate two printable images Rabbi Josef Karo of Safed.

The first image of "Rabbi Josef Karo of Safed” is taken from a Judaica
Auction in Hungary.
R. Josef Karo (Rabbi of Safed, the author of Sulhan Arukh, 1488-1575)
portrait on colored cut, 13 X 9 cm (Germany, 18.-19. Century)
http://emil.alarmix.org/judaica/153.jpg


The second image can be viewed by scrolling down to the center of the
page. This depiction of Rabbi Josef Karo of Safed is smaller but has
more detail.
In order to print this image, just right click on it with your mouse
and save the picture to your computer in .jpg format.
http://www.pardes.pl/rabini/rabini.htm


Additional information that may interest you:

Here are two short biographies of Rabbi Josef Karo of Safed
http://www.ascent.org.il/Safed/Sages/caro-bio.html
http://www.ou.org/pardes/bios/caro.htm


Search Criteria:
Josef Karo Safed
Yosef Caro


I hope you find this helpful.

Best Regards,
Bobbie7-ga

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Clarification of Answer by bobbie7-ga on 31 Jan 2003 12:30 PST

Here's the direct link to the second image.
http://www.pardes.pl/rabini/karo.jpg

Here are two other versions of the same picture:

www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/ TalmudMap/KARO.GIF
www.jewishgen.org/ Rabbinic/karo.gif

Search Strategy:

Searched Google Images for
"joseph caro"
"joseph karo"

P.S. I also searched Israeli Google with the rabbi's Hebrew name, but
didn't find pictures. (So far, Israeli Google does not have an Images
search.)