Zekhor le-Avraham — Abraham Ankawa
זכור לאברהם — אברהם אנקאווה
Author: Rabbi Avraham ben Mordekhaï Ankava (Abraham Ankawa, né à Salé en 1810)
Date: Livourne, 1838
Preservation: Édition imprimée (Livourne, vers 1838)
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❧ Description
Zekhor le-Avraham (זכור לאברהם) is one of Rabbi Abraham Ankawa's earliest works, printed in Livorno around 1838. In verse with commentary, it sets out the rules of terefot — the anatomical defects that render an animal unfit for consumption — together with liturgical poems. Ankawa travelled to Livorno c. 1838 specifically to have his first books printed.
Sources: Encyclopaedia Judaica, 'Ankawa, Abraham ben Mordecai'; Sh. Tanji, Encyclopedia of the Sages and Rabbis of Morocco.
English
Zekhor le-Avraham (זכור לאברהם) is one of Rabbi Abraham Ankawa's earliest works, printed in Livorno around 1838. In verse with commentary, it sets out the rules of terefot — the anatomical defects that render an animal unfit for consumption — together with liturgical poems. Ankawa travelled to Livorno c. 1838 specifically to have his first books printed. Sources: Encyclopaedia Judaica, 'Ankawa, Abraham ben Mordecai'; Sh. Tanji, Encyclopedia of the Sages and Rabbis of Morocco.