David Samuel Carasso
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David Samuel Carasso (b. Salonica, Turkey) was a nineteenth-century Jewish traveler and writer. On the occasion of a business trip to Yemen, Arabia in 1874, he studied the situation of the Jews of that region. He published an account of his travels in a volume written in Judæo-Spanish, entitled Zikron Teman ó el Viage en el Yémen (Constantinople, 1875). He traversed the whole of the interior of Arabia, including Sada, Aseer, Sanaa, etc., and was especially interested in the last-named community. In order to ameliorate the condition of the Jews of Yemen, he wrote to the Anglo-Jewish Association and to the chief rabbi of Constantinople, Moses Halévy, whereupon the latter sent Isaac Saul, a rabbi of Constantinople, to Sanaa as chief rabbi.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Isidore Singer and M. Franco (1901–1906). "Carasso, David Samuel". Jewish Encyclopedia. http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=141&letter=C.
