PREFIX cc: PREFIX dc: PREFIX dcat: PREFIX dcterms: PREFIX dqv: PREFIX edm: PREFIX foaf: PREFIX geo: PREFIX geosparql: PREFIX gn: PREFIX gndo: PREFIX jl: PREFIX jld: PREFIX jlo: PREFIX oa: PREFIX owl: PREFIX prov: PREFIX rdf: PREFIX rdfs: PREFIX schema: PREFIX skos: PREFIX spdx: PREFIX void: PREFIX wd: PREFIX wdt: PREFIX xml: PREFIX xsd: rdf:type ; rdfs:label "אבודרהם"; ; "unknown/1707"^^; ; "Reference in another text"; "Quaglia, Notes on Kaufmann B 1"; "Footprint information from Fabrizio Quaglia:\n\nAt the top of p. 184, partially deleted 17th-century Italian note “Liuorno al s.[igno]r Solomon Racah”.\n\nDate based on dates that Racah was in Livorno.\n\nRacah, Solomon: He was a Jewish merchant, son of Massol/Massod/Massot Raccà/Racha/Racach, of North-African origin. In 1707, Salomone settled in Genoa from Livorno with his brother Abramo and a servant (we know also the name of a third brother, Jacob); Salomon and Abram managed a company importing a great variety of goods, like e.g., Neapolitan silk pieces as well as saffron and bales of spun cotton from the Levant. Around 1710 he became one of the deputies (massari) of the Jewish community of Genoa. Together with his brother Abram, he obtained the annual exemption from wearing the sign thanks to the utility of their activity for the Genoese economy following their request because without a badge which identified them as Jews they could look after their business avoiding being insulted or worse by the populace (cf. below Giulio Giacchero, and Rossana Urbani and Guido Nathan Zazzu). At least till 1718, Salomon lived in Genoa, in that year he was exempted again from wearing the badge (cf. R. Urbani and G.N. Zazzu, below); on the contrary, Abram settled in Genoa for more years (in the 1720s and again in 1735 he held the position of massaro of the community, cf. Andrea Zappia, below). They appear several times helping the payment of various ransoms of Genoese captives in Egypt and the Barbary Coast.\nHere is an example of the network of relationships that could intervene through middlemen in the commercial network and, in this case, ransom a prisoner. A document dated 32 February 1712 informed that a certain Giovanni Battista Mazini, slave of a Turkish prison captain called “Yusuf Rais” son of a French renegade, was freed paying 387 “pezzi da otto” (Spanish silver coins), 305 of which were brought forward to Algiers by a Jew called Daniel Coen. Having certified the poverty of the redeemed, the Magistrato del Riscatto degli schiavi of Genoa paid the money advanced by Daniel Coen to Abram and Salomon Racah, appointed by Jacob Coen as attorneys of the firm David and Salamon Coen of Livorno (cf. below R. Urbani and G.N. Zazzu, and A. Zappia). The Racah brothers operated their business, sometimes as agents and attorneys of other firms, also in Livorno, Naples,\nVenice, Tunisia, Alexandria, Cairo, and Belgium (cf. below R. Urbani and G.N. Zazzu, and A. Zappia). In the 1720s and 1730s, Salomon Racah was the agent from Venice of the Livornese company Ergas and Silvera, who were two Iberian Jews, for the selling in Venice of diamonds extracted from the famous Golconda mines in India (cf. Francesca Trivellato, below). This was a kind of trade in which large sums of money could easily generate controversies on payments like those involving S. Racah and Jews living in Livorno and London (cf. below Raccolta delle decisioni della ruota fiorentina dal MDCC al MDCCCVIII, dated 1720-1721, and the document drafted in Amsterdam in 1739 readable on the website Openarchieven). From the 1730s until his death on 15 October 1754, the wealthy philanthropist “Salomon Racach” lived in Venice, where he maintained a rabbinical academy and where he financially supported the kabbalist circle headed by Mošeh Ḥayyim Luṣaṭo (1707-1746) in Padua. After the death of his first wife, this Salomon married again in the Spring of 1738 (cf. Isaiah Tishby, below). We cannot, however, be certain that “Salomon Racach” is the Jew from Livorno who settled in Genoa many decades before.\nWe know that among the goods imported by Abram Racah in the years 1728-1735 there were some books. Likewise, his brother Solomon could have received the Hebrew incunable Kaufmann B 1 thanks to his own business.\nSources: Raccolta delle decisioni della ruota fiorentina dal MDCC al MDCCCVIII. VI, Firenze, Marchini, 1844, pp. 720-733; GIULIO GIACCHERO, Economia e società del Settecento genovese, Genova, Sagep, 1973, pp. 107, 133 (note 12); ROSSANA URBANI and GUIDO NATHAN ZAZZU, The Jews in Genoa, II, Brill, 1999, pp. 588-593, 599, 602, 629-634, 638, 657, 679, 684, 691, 702, 714, 729, docs. 1197, 1209, 1218, 1265, 1278, 1316, 1385, 1402, 1423, 1497, 1542; ISAIAH TISHBY, Messianic Mysticism. Moses Hayim Luzzatto and the Padua School, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2008, pp. 300 (note 24), 316-317, 344-345, 401, 428 (note 67), 436, 440; FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO, The familiarity of strangers. The Sephardic diaspora, Livorno, and cross-cultural trade in the early modern period, New Haven; London, Yale University Press, 2009, pp. 85, 300-301 (note 85); ANDREA ZAPPIA, “À riguardo dell’utile che alli pubblici introiti apportano gli Ebrei”. Considerazioni socio‐economiche sulla nazione ebrea a Genova tra Sei e Settecento, “RiMe. Rivista dell’Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea”, XVII, 2016, 2, pp. 88-90, 99; Openarchieven. Doorzoek de genealogische gegevens van Nederlandse archieven, ."; ; 81; ; "Budapest, Hungary"; "אבודרהם"; false; jlo:describedAt "https://footprints.ctl.columbia.edu/footprint/21685/"; dcterms:date "? - 1707" .