Jewish History: The Great Rabbis: The Kaf ha-Chayim:
What can you tell me about the author of the Kaf ha-Chayim?
The Kaf ha-Chayim, by R.Yaakov Chayim b.Yitzchak Baruch
Sofer of Bagdad, was published in Jerusalem between 1905
and 1933. (R.Chayim Palagi published a book with the same
title in Saloniki in 1859.) The author was born in 1870
and died in 1939. According to an introduction to the
1963 edition of the Kaf ha-Chayim, published in Jerusalem
by the author's son, he moved from Bagdad to Jerusalem in
1909, where he was associated with the Yeshiva Shoshanim
le-David, which was established by the Bagdadi community
in Jerusalem.
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