Algazi, Ḥayyim Ben Menahem

Rabbi of the island of Rhodes and Smyrna; lived in the seventeenth century; author of "Bene Ḥayyai" (Sons of My Life), containing notes and novellæ in the sequence of the four Ṭurim. It was edited by the author's pupil, Meir Danon, Orthokoi (near Constantinople), 1712. Appended to it are the author's "Ḥiddushim," miscellaneous notes on Shebu'ot, Sanhedrin, Giṭṭin, etc., edited by Ḥayyim ben Isaac Raphael Alfandari.

Bibliography:

  * Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 80;
  * Fürst, Bibl. Jud. i. p. 37.



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