About Isaac Kovo
Lived 1770 – 1854 (aged 83–84). Isaac Kovo was an Israeli and Turkish rabbi.
Yitzhak Ben-Hezekiah Yosef Kovo (; 1770–1854) was born in the large Sephardi community of Ottoman Salonica and later settled in Jerusalem. In 1848, he succeeded Chaim Abraham Gagin as hacham bashi aged 78. Throughout his career he went on fundraising missions to Poland, London and Egypt. In 1854, he died while in Alexandria. He authored many works on the Mishnah, Talmud and Shulchan Aruch and wrote responsa.
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Who was Isaac Kovo?
Ottoman rabbi
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Isaac Kovo was born in 1770 in Jerusalem.
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Isaac Kovo died in 1854 in Alexandria.
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Isaac Kovo was a rabbi.
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Isaac Kovo was Israeli and Turkish.
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