Sara Rabin

(I am posting the following information here, since I don't have access to post to her father Shimon Hakham's profile)

http://www.boeliem.com/content/1991/433.html

Rabbi Shimon Hakham

One of the founders of the Bukharim Quarter was Rabbi Shimon Hakham, a great-grandchild of Rabbi Yosef Maman, the "Shadar" who travelled from Safed to visit the Bukharan Jews. He was born in Bukhara in 1843. His father, a religious scholar and a wealthy man, provided him with a very good education. He became a merchant and, like his father, also encouraged the teaching of religious studies to the poor and he founded a Talmud Torah for the needy.

Rabbi Shimon Hakham and his wife raised a son and a daughter. In 1890 Rabbi Shimon and his wife emigrated to Israel with their son and settled in Jerusalem. On his arrival he joined the "Hovevel Zion". Later he returned to Bukhara to wind up his business and whilst he was there his wife died in Jerusalem. He returned to Jerusalem and devoted himself to the education of his only son, Pinchas. When Pinchas died suddenly at the age of eighteen Rabbi Shimon was grief-stricken and dedicated himself to writing and translating. He wrote 32 books and translated part of the Bible into the Judeo-Tajiki dialect. Besides his religious writings he translated Mapu's book "Ahavat Zion". Rabbi Hakham was very active as leader of the community, as a Zionist and as an author. He has truly been described as "one of the greatest figures of the Jewish people in the period of the national revival".

His granddaughter, the poetess Shulamit Tilayoff lives in Tel Aviv.