GALANTÉ, ABRAHAM

GALANTÉ, ABRAHAM
GALANTÉ, ABRAHAM (1873–1961), Turkish politician, scholar, and historian born in Bodrum, Turkey. Galanté was a teacher and inspector in the Jewish and Turkish schools of Rhodes and Smyrna. He protested the misrule of Sultan Abdūlhamid II and partly in consequence of this he left for Egypt, where from 1905 to 1908 he edited the Ladino newspaper La Vara and also contributed to Arabic, French, and Turkish newspapers and periodicals. He encouraged the acculturation of Turkish Jewry to its homeland, and conducted an active campaign for the adoption of the Turkish language by the Jews. At the same time he fought vigorously for Jewish rights. After the revolution of the Young Turks, Galanté returned to Istanbul, at whose university he was appointed professor of Semitic languages in 1914 and later professor of the history of the Ancient Orient. Galanté was a delegate to the first Turkish National Assembly after World War I and also a member of the Parliament which met in 1943. His principal field of scholarly activity was the study of Jewish history in Turkey, but he also wrote against the adoption of Latin characters for the Hebrew alphabet. His works (mainly in French) include Don Joseph Nassi, Duc de Naxos (1913), Esther Kyra (1926), Documents officiels turcs concernant les Juifs de Turquie (collections, 1931–54), Nouveaux documents sur Sabbetai Sevi (1935), Histoire des Juifs d'Anatolie (1937–39; appendix 1948), and Histoire des Juifs d'Istanbul (1941–42). In the 1990s his collected works were published by the Isis Press in Istanbul. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: A. Elmaleh, Le Professeur Abraham Galanté (1947); idem, Ha-Profesor Abraham Galanté (1954), incl. bibl.; Shunami, Bibl, index. ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: J.M. Landau, in: KS, 27 (1950–51), 212. (Martin Meir Plessner / Jacob M. Landau (2nd ed.) GALANTE, ABRAHAM BEN MORDECAI GALANTE, ABRAHAM BEN MORDECAI (second half 16th century), kabbalist in Safed. He was the brother and a pupil of moses b. mordecai galante and a disciple of moses cordovero . Galante, who was known as a distinguished and modest Ḥasid, received the title, "Ha-Kadosh" ("the saint"). He was the first to cite Joseph Caro's Maggid Meisharim. His works include (1) Yare'aḥ Yakar, a commentary on the zohar (extant in manuscripts, to Exodus-Terumah 140:2). The work was abridged by Abraham Azulai, entitled Zohorei Ḥammah, and published in Venice (1655, and later in Piotrkow, 1881); (2) Kinat Setarim, a kabbalistic commentary on Lamentations (publ. by R.I. Gershon in the work Kol Bokhim, Venice, 1589); (3) Zekhut Avot, a kabbalistic commentary on the tractate Avot (in the work Beit Avot, Bilgoraj, 1911); and (4) Minhagei Ḥasidut, published by S. Schechter (1908). Ḥ.J.D. Azulai relates that Galante built the court of Meron where the graves of Simeon b. Yoḥai and his son Eleazar are located. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: S. Schechter, Studies in Judaism, 2 (1908), 208–9, 273–5, 294–7; G. Scholem, Kitvei Yad be-Kabbalah (1930), 102–4; idem, Bibliographia Kabbalistica (Ger., 1933), 187–8; M. Benayahu, Toledot ha-Ari (1967), 111–5, index; D. Tamar, Meḥkarim be-Toledot Yehudim be-Ereẓ Yisrael u-ve-Italyah (1970), 101–6. (David Tamar)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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