Yakir Gueron or Preciado Gueron was a
Turkish-Jewish rabbi. He was born in 1813 and died at
Jerusalem on
February 4,
1874. 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
Abd al-Majid and his successor
Abd al-Aziz conferred decorations upon him.
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