Ḥayyim ben Menaḥem Algazi

• Hayyim ben Menahem Algazi Jewish Encyclopedia

Ḥayyim ben Menaḥem Algazi (d. 1670) belonged to another branch of the family. He lived in Rhodes, but later (perhaps after the death or apostasy of his son) served as a rabbi in Izmir. His most notable book was the aforementioned Bane Ḥayye.

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-...>

ALGAZI, ḤAYYIM BEN MENAHEM: By: Gotthard Deutsch 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.