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Yevr. II A 1409

Letter addressed to Avraham Kohen, in Istanbul. Dated: Shevat 5409 AM, which is 1649 CE. In Hebrew. "We have not received any letter from you for two years. I, and your children, and thier mother, and everyone in your house are distress on your account. You said that 'I will come to you within a year,' and now two years have passed and you have not come or sent us anything." The addressee is urged to return. Regards from the addressee's sons Yosef and Yaʿaqov and the little boy, and from numerous other family members and friends. Shemuel Ḥazzan b. Yaʿaqov Ḥazzan died in Ḥeshvan. Regards to the entire Qaraite community of Istanbul.

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Type: Letter

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