Jacob Saphir

Jacob Saphir
יעקב הלוי ספיר
Jacob Saphir
Born1822
Ashmyany, Russian Empire (now Belarus)
Died1886
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine
NationalityOttoman Palestine
Occupations
  • Writer
  • Ethnographer
  • Researcher
Known for
  • Even Sapir
  • Research on the Cairo Geniza
  • Discovering the Midrash ha-Gadol
Notable work
  • Even Sapir
  • Iggeret Teman

Jacob Saphir (Hebrew: יעקב הלוי ספיר, romanized: Yankev HaLeyvy Sapir; 1822–1886), often pronounced Yaakov Sapir, was a 19th-century writer, ethnographer, researcher of Hebrew manuscripts, a traveler and emissary of the rabbis of Eastern European Jewish descent who settled in Jerusalem during his early life.

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