Don Moshe Benveniste de Segovia

The Algazis were a noted Turkish rabbinical family from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. Their origins lay in the city of Bursa, near Istanbul. The family was founded by Abraham ben Moses Algazi the Elder (ca. 1560–ca. 1640), who lived in Bursa and was the son-in-law of Rabbi Joseph ben Moses Benveniste de Segovia.

Yaron Ben Naeh

Bibliography

Ben Shim‘on, Mas‘ud (ed.). The Responsa of Our Rabbi Isaac Algazi, May the Memory of the Righteous Be for a Blessing, the Head of the Rabbis of Chios, Izmir: And Responsa That Were Replied to Him from His Teacher and Rabbi, the Great One of Israel, Our Rabbi Ḥayyim Benveniste, May the Memory of the Righteous Be for a Blessing (Jerusalem: Makhon Or ha-Mizraḥ, 1982), introduction [Hebrew].

The Book of Responsa of Our Teacher Rabbi Israel Algazi: Including Responsa and Rulings, Studies of Halakhah, and Carifications of the Four Parts of the Shulḥan ‘Arukh; The Pamphlet of Doubts: Including Sixteen Halakhah Doubts (Jerusalem: Meshivat Nefesh, 1976) [Hebrew].

Frumkin, Aryeh Loeb, and Eliezer Rivlin. History of the Rabbis of Jerusalem: From the Year 5250 from Creation to 5630 from Creation, vol. 3 (Jerusalem: Defus Salomon, 1929), pp. 108–111 [Hebrew].

Shpigel, Ya‘aqov Shemu’el. “The History of Rabbi Solomon Algazi, the Printing of His Books, and Related Matters,” ‘Aley Sefer 4 (June–July 1977), pp. 117–136 [Hebrew].

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Yaron Ben Naeh. "Algazi family." Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. Executive Editor Norman A. Stillman. Brill Online, 2013. <http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-jews-...>

Algazis were a noted Turkish rabbinical family from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. Their origins lay in the city of Bursa, near Istanbul. The family was founded by Abraham ben Moses Algazi the Elder (ca. 1560–ca. 1640), who lived in Bursa and was the son-in-law of Rabbi Joseph ben Moses Benveniste de Segovia.

Yaron Ben Naeh

Bibliography

Ben Shim‘on, Mas‘ud (ed.). The Responsa of Our Rabbi Isaac Algazi, May the Memory of the Righteous Be for a Blessing, the Head of the Rabbis of Chios, Izmir: And Responsa That Were Replied to Him from His Teacher and Rabbi, the Great One of Israel, Our Rabbi Ḥayyim Benveniste, May the Memory of the Righteous Be for a Blessing (Jerusalem: Makhon Or ha-Mizraḥ, 1982), introduction [Hebrew].

The Book of Responsa of Our Teacher Rabbi Israel Algazi: Including Responsa and Rulings, Studies of Halakhah, and Carifications of the Four Parts of the Shulḥan ‘Arukh; The Pamphlet of Doubts: Including Sixteen Halakhah Doubts (Jerusalem: Meshivat Nefesh, 1976) [Hebrew].

Frumkin, Aryeh Loeb, and Eliezer Rivlin. History of the Rabbis of Jerusalem: From the Year 5250 from Creation to 5630 from Creation, vol. 3 (Jerusalem: Defus Salomon, 1929), pp. 108–111 [Hebrew].

Shpigel, Ya‘aqov Shemu’el. “The History of Rabbi Solomon Algazi, the Printing of His Books, and Related Matters,” ‘Aley Sefer 4 (June–July 1977), pp. 117–136 [Hebrew].

Cite this page

Yaron Ben Naeh. "Algazi family." Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. Executive Editor Norman A. Stillman. Brill Online, 2013. <http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-jews-...