Mavi Boncuk
Ezekiel Gabbai (Gabay)
Turkish official and author; grandson of Ezekiel Gabbai; born at Constantinople 1825; died there 1848. He was at first an official at the Ministry of Public Instruction, and subsequently president of the Criminal Court. As founder and editor of "El Jornal Israélith" (1860), one of the first Judæo-Spanish papers of Constantinople, he introduced many reforms into the community of that city. He is the author of "The Organic Statute of the Jewish Nation in Turkey" (in Turkish),a work that has been incorporated in the Ottoman Civil Code. He also translated the Ottoman Penal Code into Judæo-Spanish. One of his sons, Isaac Gabbai, continued the publication of "El Jornal Israélith" under the title "El Telegrafo."
Bibliography: M. Franco, Essai sur l'Histoire, des lsraélites de l'Empire Ottoman.S.
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