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Abraham ben Samuel Cohen of Lask: what Wikipedia removed

An 18th-century Jewish ascetic who lived in Jerusalem and later Safed. Through 2020 the opening identified his father as “the grandson of the martyr Yechiel-Michel Ha Cohen of Nemirov.” That phrase is gone from the opening today, though the word survives once elsewhere in the article. A reader today learns his father’s name, and not that the family descended from a martyr of Nemirov.

The word “martyr” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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  • The description of his father as the grandson of the martyr of Nemirov is gone from the opening.

How it opened then, and now

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2010 (revision 359784388):

Abraham ben Yechiel-Michel Catz Ha Cohen of Lask (Yechiel-Michel was the grandson of the martyr Yechiel-Michel Ha Cohen of Nemirov). Abraham was a Jewish ascetic who flourished at the end of the 18th century. He went to live at Jerusalem in 1785, but afterward traveled through Europe as an agent for the collection of donations for the Polish Jews in the Land of Israel , making Amsterdam his center; he died as Hakam at Safed , during a riot against the Jews, who had protested against excessive taxation. Another version says he was punished by the Turks, in Jerusalem, (see below) and died in Safed, in 1799, there he was buried. He did not have children. Abraham (brother of Samuel Catz of Lask)…

2025 (revision 1226561902):

Abraham ben Yechiel-Michel Catz Ha Cohen of Lask was a Jewish ascetic who flourished at the end of the 18th century. He went to live at Jerusalem in 1785, but afterward traveled through Europe as an agent for the collection of donations for the Polish Jews in the Eretz Yisrael , making Amsterdam his center; he died as Hakam at Safed , during a riot against the Jews, who had protested against excessive taxation. Another version says he was punished by the Turks, in Jerusalem, (see below) and died in Safed, in 1799; there he was buried. He did not have children. Abraham (brother of Samuel Catz of Lask) was an ascetic of a remarkable type; he fasted six days of the week, from Sabbath night to S…

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