Joseph ha-Kohen

Joseph ha - Kohen (* December 20, 1496 in Avignon, † after 1577 in Genoa) was a Jewish doctor and chronicler in Italy.

Life

The parents of ha - Kohen came in the expulsion of the Jews from Spain to Avignon, where Joseph was born by its own account in 1496. When the Jews were expelled in 1501 and from Provence, the family moved to Genoa. Here Joseph ha - Kohen spent his youth and learned a comprehensive education in philology and medicine. After the expulsion from Genoa in 1516, the family moved to nearby Novi Ligure, where ha - Kohen was to marry the daughter of a Sephardic rabbis. 1538 ha - Kohen again practiced for twelve years in Genoa, the city had but left again in 1550 after another expulsion decree. He moved to Voltaggio, where he was offered as a town doctor's office. Here he received the settlement law as Joseph de Sacerdotibus, hebreo medico. As in 1567, the expulsion decree was extended to Voltaggio, most ha - Kohen of for some time into the Duchy of Monferrato. From 1571, he established himself again in Genoa, where he died after 1577.

Works

In addition to his work as a doctor ha - Kohen was intensely occupied with history. 1554 his main work Divre appeared in Sabbioneta ha - le- yamim malkhe Sarefat u -vet Otoman ha - Togar ( History of the Kings of France and of the dynasty Ototman of the Turks). In the form of annals, he described the history of France and of the Ottoman Empire, and twisted events in Jewish history.

Inspired by the reading of Samuel Usque 's Consolacam as tribulacoens de Israel ( 1553), he began his second major work Emek ha - bacha ( Emeq ha - Bakha, the vale of tears ). This chronicle deals with the Jewish history from the creation to the present, with emphasis on the martyrdom of the Jewish people. Joseph ha - Kohen ha - Emek revised bacha several times, the last time 1575th The book circulated in several manuscripts. Parts of it were read in the Italian synagogues on the 9th of Ab. A first printed version appeared in 1852 in Hebrew; a German translation was published in 1858.

In addition to his historical works written Ha - Kohen, a number of other writings. He is the author of medical treatises and poems. In order to make his reader with the general history, translated and he worked on the ethnographic work Omnium gentium mores, leges et rite of John Boemus and the Historia de las Indias y Conquista de México of Francisco López de Gómara.

  • Divre ha - yamim ( Franco- Turkish history ) Sefer ha - divre yamim le- malkhe Sarefat u -vet Otoman ha - Togar. Erstdruck Sabionetta 1544th
  • Emek ha - bacha ( of tears ) Emek habaca: Historia persecutionum Judaeorum ( ... ) a Josepho Hacohen M. Letteris ( eds.), first edition Vienna 1852.
  • Emek habacha ( German over by M. Wiener), Leipzig 1858. Online
  • Sefer ha - Emeq Bakha (The vale of tears ) with the Chronicle of the Anonymous Corrector. Karin Almbladh (ed.), 1981 ISBN 91-554-1143-6 Uppsala.
  • The letters of Joseph ha - Kohen, the author of Emeq ha - Bakha. Abraham David (ed.), Jerusalem 1985.
  • Sefer ha - Indi ʾ ah ha - Hadashah. Ve - Sefer Fernando Korte ( 1553) Mosheh Lazar (ed.), Lancaster 2002. ISBN 0-911437-96-7
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