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Raphael ben Joshua Abas, died 21 Oct 1709 Ouderkerk a/d Amstel, occupation: printer and editor
ABBAS (ABAS), RAPHAEL BEN JOSHUA: (back to article)


By : William Milwitzky


Printer and editor at Amsterdam; contemporary, and undoubtedly a relative, of Aaron Abbas. He supplemented the work of Aaron Abbas by publishing the other book of Aaron Perahyah, "Pirke Kehunah" (Amsterdam, 1709). He is probably identical with th e Raphael b. Joshua de Palacios (whose name Steinschneider transcribes "di Palasios"), coeditor with Samuel ben Solomon Marques (Steinschneider, "Marches," "Markis") of the treatise 'Erubin (Amsterdam, printing-office of Immanuel Benveniste, 1716) . This edition bears the stamp of approval of the censor Marcus Marinus

.Bibliography: Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. cols. 725, 3023; Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. iii. 998; Ersch and Gruber, Encyklopčadie, xxviii. 72.W. M.