David Samuel Carasso

David Samuel Carasso (Greek: Δαβίδ Σάμιουελ Καράσσο) was a nineteenth-century Jewish merchant, traveler, and writer. He was a member of the Carasso family, a prominent Sephardic Jewish family in Ottoman Salonica.

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.^[1]

References

1. Malkiel, David (16 December 2020). Strangers in Yemen: Travel and Cultural Encounter among Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Colonial Era. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-071064-9. Retrieved 7 February 2024.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Isidore Singer and M. Franco (1901–1906). "Carasso, David Samuel". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.