Aaron ben David Cohen of Ragusa (born about 1580) was a Rabbi in Ragusa,
[ nowadays ]Dubrovnik
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His maternal grandfather was Solomon Oheb, also rabbi in the same city. Aaron studied in his native city and later in Venice
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, whence he returned to occupy a pulpit in Ragusa. In 1623 he was imprisoned as a supposed accomplice of Isaac Jeshurun, who had been falsely accused of ritual murder
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. Rabbi Aaron's sermons, ''Zeḳan Aharon'' (Aaron's Beard), together with his grandfather's sermons, ''Shemen ha-Ṭob'' (The Good Oil), and the history of Isaac Jeshurun's martyrdom, were published at Venice in 1657,[
Aaron's account of the alleged ritual murder, together with documents from the Ragusa archives, were published in 1882.]
Its bibliography:
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, ''Literaturblatt des Orients'', vii. 252;
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* ''Literaturblatt'', 1883.
References
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People from the Republic of Ragusa
16th-century Italian rabbis
Year of birth uncertain
Blood libel