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The Yosef Hayyim (Ben Ish Hai) Family
Write the Great Bookיוסף חיים
(Yosef Haim)
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Yosef Hayyim (Ben Ish Hai) lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Great rabbinic dynasty of Baghdad. Yosef Hayyim, author of the Ben Ish Hai, was the spiritual guide of the entire Iraqi diaspora, whose halakhic decisions still hold authority among Sephardim worldwide.
Geographic origin: Bagdad
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One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin1
Ben Ish Chai
עברית · Hebrew1
יוסף חיים
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Notable figures
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Yosef Hayyim (Ben Ish Hai)
Grand rabbin et décisionnaire de Bagdad
In memory
The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names at Yad Vashem records the women, men, and children murdered during the Shoah. You can search there for the people who bore the name Yosef Hayyim (Ben Ish Hai).
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Works & texts (4)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
fin XIXe s.
Ben Yehoyada
Rabbi Yosef Hayyim
Commentaire du Talmud (Aggada) de Rabbi Yosef Hayyim. (fin XIXe s.)
fin XIXe – début XXe s.
Rav Pe'alim
Rabbi Yosef Hayyim
Responsa de Rabbi Yosef Hayyim. (fin XIXe – début XXe s.)
fin XIXe s.
Torah li-Shmah
Rabbi Yosef Hayyim (sous le pseudonyme Yehezkel Kehali)
Responsa de Rabbi Yosef Hayyim (sous le pseudonyme Yehezkel Kehali). (fin XIXe s.)
juridique1894–1898, Baghdad, Iraq
Ben Ish Hai
Yosef Hayyim
Notable figures of the lineage
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Diaspora regions
IrakIsraël
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