ṢEFIRAH, SAADIAH BEN JOSEPH
- ṢEFIRAH, SAADIAH BEN JOSEPH
- ṢEFIRAH, SAADIAH BEN JOSEPH (middle of the 19th
century), Yemenite author of the work Kesef Ẓaruf (Jerusalem,
1896), novellae on the Torah. The work includes extracts from ancient
and recent biblical commentators, especially from the Ḥemdat
Yamim, which is attributed to Shabbazi. A supplement
containing Ma'yan Gannim, extracts
and explanations on the Song of Songs, as well as funeral sermons, is
attached to the work. The son of the author, JOSEPH
ṢEFIRAH, immigrated to Ereẓ Israel in 1870 and settled in
Jerusalem; he copied his father's work and introduced his own
novellae (Jerusalem, 1931).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
J. Saphir, Massa le-Teiman, ed. by A. Yaari (1951), 191.
(Yehuda Ratzaby)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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