Nehorai Garmon

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Nehorai Garmon
Native name
נהוראי ג׳רמון‎
Bornc. 1682
Tripoli, Ottoman Tripolitania
Died1760
Tunis, Ottoman Tripolitania
OccupationRabbi, poet
LanguageHebrew

Nehorai Garmon (Hebrew: נהוראי ג׳רמון; c. 1682–1760) was a rabbi and poet from Ottoman Tripolitania.

Born in Tripoli, Garmon went to Tunis at the age of twenty, and studied Talmud under Isaac Lumbroso, whom he succeeded in the rabbinate. He was the author of Yeter ha-Baz, published posthumously in Livorno in 1787, consisting of novellæ on the Talmud and on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah.[1] Printed with the work are eleven poems of the author, and the novellæ of his son Ḥayyim (d. 1781).[2] Garmon lost a large part of his writings in an attack on the Jewish quarter.[3]

References[edit]

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainDeutsch, Gotthard; Seligsohn, M. (1903). "Garmon, Nehorai". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 573.

  1. ^ Fürst, Julius (1863). Bibliotheca Judaica: Bibliographisches Handbuch der gesammten jüdischen Literatur (in German). Vol. 1. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann. p. 318.
  2. ^ Cazès, David (1893). Notes bibliographiques sur la littérature juive-tunisienne. Tunis: Imprimerie intérnationale. pp. 223–229.
  3. ^  Deutsch, Gotthard; Seligsohn, M. (1903). "Garmon, Nehorai". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 573.

Further reading[edit]

  • Garmon, Nehorai (1787). Sefer Yeter ha-baz (in Hebrew). Livorno: Defus Avraham Yitsḥak Kastilo veha-maskil Eliʻezer Saʻadon.
  • Saraf, Michal (1982). Nehorai: R. Nehorai Garmon mi-Tunis u-piyutav [Nehorai: Rabbi Nehorai Garmon of Tunisia and His Poetry] (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University.