Alkabizi, Abraham Allegorical Interpretation
under the
title
Tin: .iKwisn
of " Maiiot Im Levi
"
(The Gifts of the
His eommeiilary on the Soiii; of Songs. Levile). called " Ayelct Alialiim" (The Dawn of [>ove), writ leu in 1536. wa.s piililishcrl. with I he tixt. in Venice. l.^.V^; Yisliai "
Shoresh
(The Koot of .Icsse). on the llie year l.">.")3. appeared, and an iude. by his son
while
'
Book
of Hulli. written in
together with
the
te.xt
Besides this series he wrote a commentary on the Book of llosi^a. which, however, has not heen published, and (piite a larjre numberof cabalistic pmyersand books, .moiiir the (The House of the Konl) latter his "Bet Adonai should be mentioned, which the authors of "Slial " and "Siflc Yesheiiim." as well shelet hii Ivalilialali as Wolf, «ttribul(r to his son .Moses, but which, no doubt, belongs to Alkabiz senior, because he alludes to it as his own work both in his commentary on Hulh (iii. 14). and in a note to the Zoliar(G( ii. i. K!). which he sent to,Joseph Caro. and which the author of " Seder ha-Dorot " claims to have seen (compare "Seder ha-Dorot, p. 24i!). l)c Hossi misreads the jiassjige in question, anil deduces from it the e.ist<'nce in nnmuscript of a commentary on the entire Zohar. A/.ulai. furthermore, appears to have seen another work by this author, which posses.ses some biographical value, inasmuch as under the title of " Berit haLevi" (The Covenant of the Levitc). Alkabiz collected in it a cabalistic commentary on the Passover Haggadah. and a number of other esoteric dis(|uisitions. all of which he left asaspeciesof mystic souvenir to his disciples and associates at Adrianoplc. just prior JIosi's. in
'tti
.
at Consliintinople.
"'
to his departure for Palestine.
Bibliography: SteinachuelUer. Vat. liinll. cnl. 2-.^; I.Rndstiutli. 'AmmwIi'ha-'Ahndah, pp. ^Ot-t «(•*/.; .zulai. Shtiii hiiNepi-(ihin)ndi. T't/r./of thilalc YisraeU p. 3^*: Hcilprin. Sedcrha-lJiiriit. ed. MaskJUfthan. 1.24;!: ill. £; ( imfHrii'. K<ire hii-Itorot, pd. l>etrciknf, pp. B'> ft xcq.; I)e Kos-si. hizi'mnrin Stnriai (Germ. Imns.), ^. 38; (IrttiiUiiu ed. Ben]a<'nt).
Winter and Wiinsche.
i.
Hi4
JU<li.-ichc
LUeratur,
ill.
m.
H. G. E.
ALKABIZI,
ABBAHAK
Editor at Constan-
tinople during the lirst (|uarterof the sixtcentli century. In l.")l() he. together with .ludah S:ison and
Joseph Hamon.
Hawwah "
of
Adam
the"Toledot MeshuUani.
])d)lished
Jeroham
b.
wa-
Bini.iOGRAPiiv Steinsohnplder. Cat. lindl. coLs. i:i84. 2SI7: idem, JIUiisfhr TiiiKHiraiihii p. :J8. note IS In Erscli and (jruber's EnnikhntiUlic, x.xviii.
W. M,
ALEALAI,
ABRAHAM BEN
SAMTTEL
Casuist, who lived in Turkey in the laller pari of the {ighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. He wrote "Zekor le-Abndiam " (Hemend)er Abraham), in which the laws of the four I'urim are alplnibelically arninged and commented upon. The work appeared in two volumes, at Salouica. in 1798. and was reedited by .ludah Hai Alkalai at .losefow, 1840. Alkalai also publislnd two volumes of responsa under the title of " Hesed le-Abraham " (Mercy to Abraham). Sahmica, 181:^-14.
BlBLIOGRAPnT
Zedner. Cat. Ilcin: Boota Brit.
Mti.i. p. 43.
H, G. E.
ALKALAI, ISAAC BEN JOSEPH. F-si.
See Ai.-
Isaac iikn .IiisKrir
ALKALAI, JOSEPH BEN DAVID:
Lived
Turkey in the early part of the nineleeiith century. Author of "Amar Yoseph." containing notes to Maimonides and alphabetically arranged novelhu to the Talmud, as well as a number of homilies (Sain
lonica, 1831).
Bibliography the British
Zedner, Catahiauc of the Hctirexr liiuikK nt
Museum,
p. 43.
H. G. E.
kncyclopedia
403
ALKALAI, JtTDAH BEN SOLOMON 9AI Babbi
in Seiulin.
Croatia: <lied tictober, ISTs.
He
he-
came noted through
his propagaiula in favored the restoralion of the .lews to Palestine. By reason of some of his projects, he may justly be regardeilasono of the precursors of the modern Zionists headed by Th.
His work. "Goral la-Achmai
Herzl (see Zionism).
"
(A Lot
for the Lord), jiublished at Vienna, in 18.'<T. is a treatist' on the restoration of the Jews, and suggests methotls for the bellermentof coiidiri<insin Palestine.
After a somewhat able homiletical discussion of the .Messianic probleiu, in whicii he shows considerable knowledge of the older wrilers. Alkalai suggests the formation of a joint-stock comiiany. such as a ste:unship or railroad trust, whose endeavor it should b.' to induce the sultan to cede I'alestine to lh<' Jews as a tributary country, on a plan similar to that on which To this the Danube principalities were governed. suggestion are appended the commendations of numerous Jewish scliolarsof various .schools of thought.
The problem di.scu.sse<l
of the restoration of Palestine
by
"Shema'
.VIkalai in
was
also
Y'israel " (Hear. ()
Israel). 1861 or lH6'.i. and Harbinger of Good Tidings" (compare "Jewish Chronicle," 18r>7, p. Ilil8, where his name is siielleil Alkali). In his "Sheloin Y'erushalayim " (The Peace of Jcrusjilem). 184b, he rejilies to those who attacked his book. "Darke
in "
Noam "(The
Pleasant
Paths), which treated of the
duty of tithes, . olher work of his. " Minliat Yeliudali "(The OITering of Judali). Vienna. 1843, is a panegyric on Montetiore and Creinieu.v, who had rescued the Jews of Damascus from the horrors of the blood-accusation.
Bibliography: Furst. liilil. Jml. I. 30; Zedner, Cat. Hrbr. BitiikK Hril. Mux. p. 4:); Steinschnelder, Uctir. Bilil. 1. 2<, v.
m:
.Iiw. Qtunl. /fir.
.xl. Ii05.
II.
ALKALAI, MOSES BEN DAVID
G. E.
Jud.eo-
Spanish translaliu. and writer of Hebrew textbooks: lived in Turkey in the nineteenth century. With his father David, he translated Solimion ibn Verga's "Shcbet Yehudah " fmm Hebrew inio Jucheo Spanish (UclgRide. is.")!)). He also wrote: (1) miJJD Ppn (Belgrade. 18."iil). treating of laws <'oncerning meals: ('2) n Hebrew grammar (liucharest, 1860); (3) pst'n 1N13 (Belgrade, 1867), a treatise on arithmetic.
Bibliography Juddica^
Kayserllng, Bilitinteea Esparwla-rnrtui/xieza
p. 10.
W. M.
ALKAN, ALPHONSE (known Elder): French
bom
iiriiili'i,
as Alkan the bibliographer, and aullior;
died at NeuillysurSeiue. IH89. practical i)rinter. then wrote for various typographical and bibliographical reviews, and subseiiuently was appointed secretary and proof-reader to the Count de Chirac, keeper of the Museum of Anti(|uities in the Louvre. Alkan was a prolilic writer and the author of many books, l)ani[)hli'ts. and articles, which deal with the art and history of printing and illustrating as well as with bibliography. His more important booksare: " I,e3 Femmes Compositrices d'lmprimerie sous la Kevolu-
He
in Paris, ISilO;
lirst
worked as a
de 1794. parun Ancien Typograidie," 1862 (anonymous); " Les Graveurs de Portraits en France." 1H79: "Documents pour Servir il I'Histoire de la Librairie Parisienne." 1879; " Les Livrcset Leurs Ennemis." 1m8:!: " Les Etiquettes et les Inscriptions des Boites-Volumcs de Pierre Jannet. Fondateur de la Bibliothe(|Ue Elzeverienne." 1883; "Edouard IJene Lefebvre de Laboulaye, un Fondeur en Caracteres, Membre de I'lnstitut," 1886; "Berbignier et Son tion Franf/aise
