Raphael and Miriam

B. ha-Kohen

1910

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 hung over the great city giving it a sad and dark appearance. It was one of those days when the heart of a man unintentionally saddens and is filled…

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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. 

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