FEINSTEIN, ḤAYYIM JACOB HA-KOHEN
- FEINSTEIN, ḤAYYIM JACOB HA-KOHEN
- FEINSTEIN, ḤAYYIM JACOB HA-KOHEN (second half of the
19th century), emissary from Safed who visited the Jewish
communities in the Orient, including Aden, Yemen, and India. He was in
the last country three times, in 1866, 1873, and 1887. While in
Calcutta, he noted disapprovingly the practice of the Jews of using the
trolley on the Sabbath, and wrote a treatise, Imrei Shabbat
(1874), in which he vehemently opposed this custom. He published
Torat Immekha (1886), in which he opposed other practices of
Baghdadi Jews. In cochin (which he visited twice) he took the side
of the "Non-White Jews," as he called the "Black Jews," and fought for
their emancipation, maintaining that they were actually the early
settlers while the "White Jews" were newcomers. He expressed these views
in his Mashbit Milhamot (1889) which he submitted to the
Co-chin Jews and to the chief rabbi of Jerusalem, Meir Panigel. His
report appeared as a supplement to the second edition of his Imrei
Shabbat (1889).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
A. Yaari, Ha-Defus ha-Ivri be-Arẓot ha-Mizraḥ, 2 (1940), 29,
30; idem, in: Sinai, 4 (1939), 416–21; 26 (1950), 342–4; D.S.
Sassoon, Ohel Dawid, 2 (1932), 966–7; Bar-Giora, in:
Sefunot, 1 (1947), 265–6.
(Walter Joseph Fischel)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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