IRĀQĪ, ELEAZAR BEN AARON HA-KOHEN°
- IRĀQĪ, ELEAZAR BEN AARON HA-KOHEN°
- IRĀQĪ, ELEAZAR BEN AARON HA-KOHEN° (d. 1864),
Yemenite-indian scholar and printer. Though born in Cochin, India,
before 1816, ʿ Irāqī was of Yemenite parentage. He spent most of his
life in Calcutta where he served as teacher, ḥazzan, and
shoḥet in the new Jewish community. He opened a printing
press in Calcutta in 1841, becoming the first Jewish printer in India;
during the next 16 years he printed 25 ritual books for the use of the
Jewish communities of India and the East. He made special efforts to
print the works of Yemenite scholars and poets. In the Sefer
ha-Pizmonim ("Book of Hymns," 1842) which he printed, some of his
own poems are also included.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
A. Yaari, Ha-Defus ha-Ivri be-Arẓot ha-Mizraḥ (1940), 9–13.
(Yehuda Ratzaby)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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