Yitzhak Kovo
Yitzhak Ben-Hezekiah Yosef Kovo (1770–1854) was born in the large Sephardi community of Ottoman Salonica and later settled in Ottoman-era Jerusalem. In 1848 he succeeded Chaim Abraham Gagin as hacham bashi aged 78. Throughout his career he went on fundraising missions to Poland, London and Egypt. In 1854, while in Alexandria, he died. He authored many works on the Mishnah, Talmud and Shulchan Aruch and wrote responsa.
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- Tidhar, D. (1965). Entsiklopedyah le-halutse ha-yishuv u-vonav Vol. 14, pg. 4544.
- Gaon, M.D. (1938) Yehudei ha-Mizrach be-Eretz Yisrael, Vol. 2, pg. 623–626.
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