The Chida

1724–1806

Chaim Yosef David Azulai, 1724–1806, Jerusalem. A bibliographer and a traveller: he crossed the communities of Europe as an emissary of the Land of Israel and catalogued hundreds of manuscripts nobody else would have counted.

Days on which this name is the person of the day in 2026

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Non-Hebrew names are written in Hebrew letters by ordinary transliteration; variants exist, and the number depends on the spelling. We show the letters so it can be checked. This is a coincidence of counting, not a claim about fate. It is interesting exactly insofar as you can see how it was counted.