Abraham Palacci

Abraham Palacci (1809 or 1810 – January 2, 1898) was a grand rabbi and author (in Ladino and Hebrew) of Ottoman Smyrna (now İzmir). He was the son of grand rabbi Haim Palachi and brother of grand rabbi Rahamim Nissim Palacci and rabbi Joseph Palacci. He came from the influential Pallache family.

Life Abraham Palacci was the son of Lastrolh and Haim Palacci, who was grand rabbi of İzmir before him. He studied at Beth Jacob Rabbi in İzmir. Like his father, he began writing essays at an early age. He helped his father write and print books.

Upon the death of his father in 1868, Palacci was appointed grand rabbi of İzmir, a position he held for thirty years until his death in 1898. Some dispute arose over Palacci's succession. A minority in the local community championed Rabbi Joseph Hakim of Manissa to succeed. A majority wanted son Abraham to succeed him, including Jews with foreign citizenship. Abraham succeeded his father on October 7, 1869. He promoted modern education.

Personal and death Palacci married Sara. When she died he remarried. He had three sons named Solomon,Nissim and Cebrail and two daughters. Through marriage, he was related to Rabbi Moshe Hacohen of Djerba, Tunisia. Beyt Hillel Pallache according to Lewental This synagogue forms a cluster of eight extant (from a recorded peak of 34 in the 19th century), all adjacent or in the Kemeraltı Çaršisi (Kemeraltı marketplace) in İzmir. The heritage organization states, "İzmir is the only city in the world in which an unusual cluster of synagogues bearing a typical medieval Spanish architectural style is preserved ...[and] creating an historical architectural complex unique in the world."

In its record, Journey into Jewish Heritage calls the Beit Hillel synagogue "Avraham Palaggi's synagogue" but then states that "the synagogue was founded by Palaggi Family in 1840" and that Rav Avraham Palaggi "used" it. "The building had been used as a synagogue and a Beit Midrash. The synagogue has not been used since 1960's." It concludes, "The synagogue was founded by the Palaggi family and is therefore very important."

Works Twenty books by Palacci remain in print; other writings burned in a great fire in İzmir (which also burned his father's manuscripts).

Like his father, Palacci put his name "Abraham" into the names of most of his books, which also use verses from Genesis in which God remembered Abraham.

Abraham Heard, Q&A on the Shulchan Aruch Goshen Mishpat (İzmir, Av Beit) Named Abraham, Part A, (Abraham affairs Systems), Rashi's commentary (İzmir) Named Abraham, Part B, on the Safra (İzmir) Abraham References (İzmir) Abraham Selfish, Part I (İzmir) Abraham Selfish, Part II (İzmir) Abraham's Hand (İzmir) Abraham's Eyes (İzmir) Blessed Abraham (Thessaloniki) And Abraham Hastened (İzmir) Thanks to Abraham (İzmir) And Called Abraham (İzmir) Redeemed Abraham (İzmir) Living Will (İzmir) Abraham Secondly (İzmir) And Abraham was Old (İzmir) And Proved Abraham, sermons ethic (in Ladino) (Thessaloniki) And Joseph Abraham, written with brother Rabbi Yosef Palagi (Ladino and Hebrew) (İzmir) And Abraham Rose, Psalms, (İzmir) Then Answered Abraham, Q&A (İzmir) Honorable Jacob, Q&A on Jacob Akris, edited by Pallaci (İzmir)