Yaʿaneh la-Rabbim — Abraham Ankawa
Author: Rabbi Avraham ben Mordekhaï Ankava (Abraham Ankawa, né à Salé en 1810)
Date: 1858
Preservation: Édition imprimée (1858)
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❧ Description
Yaʿaneh la-Rabbim (1858) is a polemical and halakhic writing by Rabbi Abraham Ankawa, connected with a controversy that set him against the rabbis of Algiers. It sheds light on the rabbinic tensions of mid-nineteenth-century Algeria, where Ankawa served — notably as rabbi of Mascara — after leaving Morocco.
Sources: Encyclopaedia Judaica, 'Ankawa, Abraham ben Mordecai'; Sh. Tanji, Encyclopedia of the Sages and Rabbis of Morocco.
English
Yaʿaneh la-Rabbim (1858) is a polemical and halakhic writing by Rabbi Abraham Ankawa, connected with a controversy that set him against the rabbis of Algiers. It sheds light on the rabbinic tensions of mid-nineteenth-century Algeria, where Ankawa served — notably as rabbi of Mascara — after leaving Morocco. Sources: Encyclopaedia Judaica, 'Ankawa, Abraham ben Mordecai'; Sh. Tanji, Encyclopedia of the Sages and Rabbis of Morocco.