Tag: hamon

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Copy of a letter from Yehuda Zarqo (a 16th-century Hebrew poet of Rhodes and Salonica) to the physician Yosef Hamon on the occasion of Hamon's wedding. This copy may be much later, perhaps 18th or 19th century.
Letter from Moshe b. Yosef Hamon of Istanbul to Yehuda al-Ashqar in Egypt. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. For information on the Hamon family, see H. Gross, 'La famille Juive des Hamon', REJ, 56 (1908), pp. 8-26, 57 (1909), pp. 55-78; U. Heid, 'Moses Hamon, chief Jewish physician to Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent', Oriens, 16 (1963), pp. 152-170. Information from FGP.