Creator Bio

Isaac Bekhor Amarachi

In Salonika in 1845–1847, Isaac Bekhor Amarachi operated a printing press that produced Hebrew and Ladino books. Among them were parts of the Zohar (1845) and a Ladino translation of Pinḥas Horowitz’s Sefer ha-berit (1847). Amarachi also translated a Hebrew biography of Moses Montefiore into Ladino.

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Sefer musar haskel (Book of Moral Lessons)

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We translated Musar haskel for the following five reasons: The first is that our hearts have become so hardened that instruction does not easily penetrate them. This is why we wrote this educational…
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