ABULAFIA, ḤAYYIM NISSIM BEN ISAAC
- ABULAFIA, ḤAYYIM NISSIM BEN ISAAC
- ABULAFIA, ḤAYYIM NISSIM BEN ISAAC (1775–1861), rabbi and
communal worker, known also, from the initial letters of his name, as
"Ḥana." Born in Tiberias, he succeeded his father as the head of the
Jews of Tiberias. He was for a short time rabbi of Damascus. After the
defeat of the Egyptian commander ibrahim pasha by the Turks
(1840), when some of the Arab sheikhs began to seize control of the
villages and towns abandoned by the Egyptians and oppressed and
maltreated their Jewish inhabitants, Abulafia asked the commander of the
Turkish forces in Sidon (Saida) and Tripoli to take action to stop these
acts. The latter immediately had instructions dispatched to the governor
of Safed forbidding persecution of the Jews. Toward the end of his life
Abulafia moved to Jerusalem and, in 1854, he was elected rishon
le-Zion succeeding Isaac covo . In Jerusalem he supported
ludwig august frankl in the founding of the Laemel school. His
writings have remained in manuscript, except for individual responsa
published in the works of his contemporaries.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Frumkin-Rivlin, 3 (1929), 279–81; M.D. Gaon, Yehudei ha-Mizraḥ
be-Ereẓ Yisrael, 2 (1937), 7–8; Yaari, Sheluḥei, index, s.v.; J.M.
Toledano, Oẓar Genazim (1960), index; I. Ben Zvi,
Meḥkarim u-Mekorot (1966), index (Ketavim, vol.
3).
(Abraham David)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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