Creator Bio
B. ha-Kohen
19th–20th Century
B. ha-Kohen was an Istanbul-based editor, printer, and author. He may have been the same person as Ben-Yitsḥak Saserdote, a Ladino author who signed his works simply as “Saserdote” (Sacerdote), as both the Spanish sacerdote and Hebrew kohen mean “priest,” though others have identified Saserdote as the pen name of a female author.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Raphael and Miriam
It was a winter day. The streets of Vienna were dirty and shrouded with the mud of the snows that were falling, only to be melted immediately under the feet of the passersby. A dense and heavy smoke…