SOLOMON BEN ELIJAH HA-KOHEN
- SOLOMON BEN ELIJAH HA-KOHEN
- SOLOMON BEN ELIJAH HA-KOHEN (late 11th and early
12th century), founder of an academy in damascus in the
early 12th century. His father, the gaon
elijah b. solomon (d. 1083), was head of the Palestinian academy
in Tyre. Elijah appointed his elder son, ABIATHAR, as his
successor and his second son, SOLOMON, as av
("father") of the academy. However, after the dispute which broke out
between the members of the academy and david b. daniel b. azariah
, who demanded that the Jews of Palestine and syria also recognize
him, Abiathar was forced to escape to Tripoli in Syria. Solomon also
left Tyre. It seems that he remained for some time in one of the
villages of Galilee and later settled in Ḥadrak. There he founded an
academy which was considered as a continuation of the Palestinian one.
He also assumed the title of gaon. A letter that he wrote in
1116, while gaon in Ḥadrak, was found in the genizah .
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Mann, Egypt, index; Mann, Texts, 1 (1931), 249ff.; S. Assaf (ed.),
Sefer ha-Yishuv, 2 (1944), 93–94; Braslavi, in: Eretz
Israel, 5 (1958), 220f.
(Eliyahu Ashtor)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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