Shenoth Chaim [pilpulistic novellae and sermons on the Torah]

CHAZAN, CHAIM

Bragadin

Venice

1693

FIRST EDITION.

Vinograd, Venice 1459; Friedberg, Shin,1888

In his introduction, the author records the hardships he encountered in Ismir while attempting to have this work published - including a fire and shortly after an earthquake. According to Friedberg, only two hundred copies of the work were issued. Generations of the Chazan family served as scholars and Rabbis to the Jews of Turkey. The Author's father, Yoseph Chazan composed Ein Yehoseph (1735); the author's son wrote Chozeh David and his grandson, the multi-volumed Chikrei Lev. The author himself was also a charitable emissary on behalf of the Jews of Jerusalem and it was while travelling in this capacity he died prematurely and was subsequently buried in the town of Mir, Lithuania in 1712. See Azulai, Shem HaGedolim, Maarecheth Sepharim no. 101; Yaari, Shluchei Eretz Yisrael p. 349; Frumkin, Toldoth Chachmei Yerushalayim, part II, p. 102 and EJ Vol. VII col. 1541.