Large Archive relating to the communal and literary career of Moshe Ya’akov (Moise Giacomo) Ottolenghi of Salonika, Greece.

A member of an illustrious Italian family, the scholar and educator Rabbi Dr. Moses Jacob Ottolenghi (1840-1901) moved in 1880 from the hub of the Enlightenment in Livorno, Italy, to the Ottoman community of Salonika in order to direct the Talmud Torah School. Ottolenghi was a prolific author and poet, who also did much original translation between Ladino, Italian and Hebrew. His published works include Degel HaTorah (1885), Zemach David (1887), Mishpat LeYa’akov (1892). The archive - all comprehensively filed, documented and notated - contains a very wide variety of materials relating to this exotic Greek community. Also includes: Original poems for children, eulogies, congratulatory epistles, sermons and autograph letters. Provenace: Property of a Gentleman; Thessaloniki, Greece.