Alfandari

Alfandari

Alfandari was a family of eastern rabbis prominent in the 17th and 18th centuries, found in Smyrna, Constantinople, and Jerusalem. The name may be derived from a Spanish locality, perhaps from Alfambra. The following is a list of the chief members of the family:
* Aaron ben Moses Alfandari
* Elijah Alfandari
* Ḥayyim ben Isaac Raphael Alfandari the Younger
* Ḥayyim ben Jacob Alfandari the Elder
* Isaac Raphael Alfandari
* Jacob ben Ḥayyim Alfandari

Members of this family were to be found as of 1906 in Constantinople and in Beirut. A Portuguese family of the name Alphandéry still exists (1906) in Paris and Avignon. At the latter place there was a physician, Moses Alphandéry, in 1506 ("Rev. Ét. Juives," xxxiv. 253) and a Lyon Alphanderic, in 1558 (ibid. vii. 280). Compare the names Moses אלפנדריך (Neubauer, "Cat. Bodl. Hebr. MSS." No. 2129) and Aaron אלפנדארק (ibid. No. 1080). For a possible explanation of the name, see Steinschneider, "Jew. Quart. Rev." xi. 591. In addition to the persons mentioned below, there is known a Solomon Alfandari (Valencia, 1367), whose son Jacob assisted Samuel Ẓarẓa in tranṣlating the "Sefer ha-'Aẓamim" of pseudo-ibn Ezra from the Arabicinto Hebrew. A merchant, Isaac Alfandari, was wrecked in 1529 on the Nubian coast (Zunz, "Z. G." p. 425; Steinschneider, "Hebr. Uebers." p. 448).

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