Yakir Gueron

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| name = Yakir Gueron

| other_names = Preciado Gueron

| birth_date = 1813

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| death_date = February 4, 1874

| death_place = Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire

| nationality = {{flag|Ottoman Empire}}

| occupation = Rabbi

| known_for = Sixth rabbi of Adrianople from the Gueron family, acting chief rabbi of Constantinople

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Yakir Gueron or Preciado Gueron (1813 – February 4, 1874 in Jerusalem) was a Turkish rabbi. He was the sixth rabbi of Adrianople descended from the Gueron family. He became rabbi in 1835 at the age of twenty-two, and eleven years later met Sultan Abd al-Majid, whom he induced to restore the privileges formerly conceded to the non-Muslim communities. Gueron, with the rabbis of İzmir and Seres, was made an arbitrator in a rabbinical controversy at Constantinople, and was chosen acting chief rabbi of the Turkish capital in 1863. Both Abdulmecid I and his successor Abdülaziz conferred decorations upon him.

Gueron resigned his office in 1872, and proceeded to Jerusalem, where he died two years later.

References

  • Singer, Isidore and Abraham Danon. "[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=479&letter=G&search=Yakir%20Gueron Gueron, Yakir (Preciado)]." Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906, citing:

:*Ha-Lebanon, x., No. 30.

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Category:1813 births

Category:1874 deaths

Category:Chief rabbis of the Ottoman Empire

Category:19th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire

Category:Sephardi rabbis from Ottoman Palestine