Aaron de Yosef Hazan

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Aaron de Joseph Hazan: Brother of Elijah Bekor Hazan; born at Smyrna 1848. In 1871 he founded the Judæo-Spanish periodical "La Esperanza," subsequently called "La Buena Esperanza"; he also wrote two novels from Jewish life: "Rahel en el Convento" and "El Muchacho Abandonado." Aaron Hazan celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of his paper by issuing an "edition especial" (Smyrna, 1896), containing a history of the congregation of Smyrna during the quarter-century. In 1890 he was decorated with the Order of the Nishan-i-Medjidie.