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Bidding Information
Lot #    18984
Auction End Date    10/9/2007 11:04:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Berakh et Avraham
Title (Hebrew)    ברך את אברהם
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Abraham Palache
City    Salonica
Publisher    Sa'adi Halevy Ashkenazi
Publication Date    1857
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [1], 4, 278 ff., 298:203 mm., usual light age and damp staining, wide margins, old hand on title, minor scattered worming. A very good copy loose in the later boards, split.
          
Detailed
Description		    Homiletics by R. Abraham Palache (1809–1899), son of R. Hayyim, a distinguished rabbinical scholar. Four months after R. Hayyim Palache's death the hakham bashi of Istanbul appointed Joseph Hakim, chief rabbi of Manissa, as hakham bashi of Izmir. This was done in order to satisfy the demands of the older generation, but Hakim was elected by only a small minority. Three-quarters of the Jews of Izmir opposed him, and their objections were intensified by his opposition to the teaching of languages in Jewish schools. Many people in Izmir then approached the local ruler, Ishmael Pasha, to appoint Abraham Palache to the post of hakham bashi, but their request was rejected. Several French, English, and Italian Jews who were in Izmir then turned to their local consuls, asking that a request, signed by 15,000 Izmir Jews, be sent to the sultan demanding, among other things, the appointment of Palache as hakham bashi. The Italian consul took the necessary steps with his ambassador in Istanbul, as well as with Ishmael Pasha, and succeeded in having the request fulfilled. In August 1869, according to a supreme order, Joseph Hakim was removed and the following year, 1870, Palache was appointed as hakham bashi of the Izmir community and served in this post for almost 30 years. Palache wrote numerous works in Hebrew and one in Ladino: Shama Avraham (Salonika, 1850), responsa; Berakh et Avraham (Salonika, 1857), homilies; Shemo-Avraham (2 vols., 1878–96), ethics and homilies; Va-Yikra Avraham (1884); Va-Yashkem Avraham (1885), studies in Psalms; Va-Ya'an Avraham (1886), responsa; Avraham Anokhi, studies on the Torah (1889); Avraham Ezkor and Yemaher Avraham (1889): Ve-Avraham Zaken (1899), homilies: and in Ladino, Ve-Hokhi'ah Avraham (2 vols., 1853–62).
          
Paragraph 2    ... דרושים... על סדר הפרשיות... המחבר... אברהם פאלאג'י... מתוך "התנצלות המחבר": ולי נאה לברך... להאי גברא רבה... ר' אברהם מנשה נר"ו אשר טרח... להגיה ויחבר את היריעו[ת]. ויפה כח הבן ... החכם... כמ' שמעון מנשה נר"ו הוה מסדר סדר המערכה... מגיה ודורשה... הסכמה: ר' חיים פאלאג'י, אבי המחבר, אזמיר, שבט תרט"ז.
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0156339; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Greece-Turkey:    Checked
  
Subject
Homiletics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica