Zichron Yerushalayim

HAZAN, ELIJAH BECHOR

Elijah Benamozegh

Livorno

1874

FIRST EDITION. Hebrew with French introduction by the editor Elijah Benamozegh. On last leaf, genealogical chart of the Hazan rabbinic dynasty

Friedberg, Z-337

In 1872-74 the author was an emissary in North Africa on behalf of the Jerusalem community. There, he was consulted concerning halachic matters especially regarding issues of personal status, areas that were affected by changes in the wider civil society. Hazan wrote Zichron Yerushalyim as a defense of traditional Judaism from the encroachment of modernizing tendencies brought on by the Colonial French administration. Of particular note is the author's prescient views concerning pre-nuptial agreements, see pp. 80-87