KAHANA, JACOB BEN ABRAHAM
- KAHANA, JACOB BEN ABRAHAM
- KAHANA, JACOB BEN ABRAHAM (d. 1826), rabbinical scholar in
Vilna. His father was rabbi at Brestowitz in the province of Grodno.
Supported by his father-in-law, Issachar Baer, the brother of
elijah of Vilna and one of the prominent rabbis of that town, he
devoted himself to study. On the death of his father-in-law, he was
appointed by the communal leaders of Vilna as trustee of the local
charities. He is the author of a commentary in three parts on tractate
Eruvin: on the tractate in the Babylonian Talmud, the
Tosefta, and the Jerusalem Talmud respectively. Each section
has a different title but the whole work was given the general title
Ge'on Ya'akov. It was published, together with Joseph Padua's
two-page pamphlet Zikhron Yosef (1863), by
raphael nathan neta rabbinovicz , who wrote a lengthy introduction
containing a biography of the author. Kahana occupied no rabbinical
position, but was held in the highest esteem.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
R.N.N. Rabbinovicz, in: J. Kahana, Ge'on Ya'akov (1863),
introd.; S.J. Fuenn, Kiryah Ne'emanah (19152),
239f.; L. Ginzberg, Perushim ve-Ḥiddushim ba-Yerushalmi, 1
(1941), 1x (Eng. introd.), 128f. (Heb. introd.).
(Itzhak Alfassi)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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