Yakir Gueron Explained

Yakir Gueron
Other Names:Preciado Gueron
Birth Date:1813
Death Date:February 4, 1874
Death Place:Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
Occupation:Rabbi
Known For:Sixth rabbi of Adrianople from the Gueron family, acting chief rabbi of Constantinople

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.

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