"עבד עברי": לתולדות הרב אברהם אביכזיר המוגרבי־מערבי: מנהיגות רבנית בעיתות מצוקה ובזמנים משתנים

This article is devoted to discussion of the history of Rabbi Abraham Abikhzer (1866–1944). Although biographies have been written about him, research and monography relating to him appears to be deficient. Therefore, the article reexamines his life-story and his educational, Hebrew-national, public, and rabbinical leadership. An unpublished source used in the article, a notebook containing copies of Rabbi Abikhzer’s letters,sheds light on his relations and methods of leadership vis-à-vis the Egyptian Jewish communities and personalities and rabbis from the Jewish Diaspora. Additional literary sources referenced in the article revise his biography and retell the history of Egyptian Jewry. Thus, the article adds a tier to the historiography of Mughrabi rabbis from Jerusalem, and rabbis in general, and their contribution to Diaspora Jewry and to the Jewish community in the Land of Israel.