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Bidding Information
Lot #    15854
Auction End Date    10/24/2006 10:26:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Jacob Saul Elyashar, Hakham Bashi
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר יעקב שאול אלישר, חכם באשי
Author    [Ms.]
City    Jerusalem
Publication Date    1894
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [2] pp., 286:230 mm., light age staining, creased on folds, neat Mid-Eastern rabbinic script, ink on paper, signed, sealed, and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Jacob Saul b. Eliezer Jeroham Elyashar (1817–1906), Sephardi chief rabbi of Erez Israel (rishon le-Zion). A grandson of R. Jacob ben Hayyim Elyashar, he was born in Safed. His father, a dayyan, shohet, and cantor there, was arrested by the Turkish authorities, but succeeded in escaping and settled with his family in Jerusalem. When R. Jacob Saul was seven, he lost his father, and his mother remarried in 1828. His stepfather, R. Benjamin Mordecai Navon, became his teacher and supported him for many years. R. Elyashar married the daughter of hakham bashi, R. Raphael Meir Panigel. He was appointed a dayyan in Jerusalem in 1853, and in 1869 head of the bet din. He succeeded his father-in-law as hakham bashi and rishon le-Zion in 1893.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica