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C04: Add Rav Kook — rabbinic-Ashkenazi hand, 4 PDM-1.0 pages #7

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Summary

Add Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935) as the third writer. Kook is the founding Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine and a prolific correspondent; four PDM-1.0 pages are already in the upstream repo. His handwriting is dense, compressed rabbinic-Ashkenazi — a genuinely different style from both Bialik and Rachel — making him a high-value third data point for style diversity.

Writer record

Field Value
writer_id avraham_yitzhak_kook
display_name Abraham Isaac Kook
also_known_as Rav Kook, HaRav Kook, אברהם יצחק הכהן קוק, Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook
born / died 1865 / 1935 — PDM in all life+70 jurisdictions
scripts_written Hebr
languages_written he, yi, ar (classical)
period 1890–1935
VIAF https://viaf.org/viaf/95177956/
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Isaac_Kook

Upstream sources

entry_id license Notes
commons__rav_kook_shemitah_letter__p0001 PDM-1.0 High-resolution scan — start here
commons__rav_kook_letter_03__p0001 PDM-1.0 Letter to Ben-Zion
commons__kook_letter_12_tammuz_1928__p0001 PDM-1.0 Dated 22 June 1928
commons__chief_rabbinate_letter_1921__p0001 PDM-1.0 Chief Rabbinate proclamation, 1921

All four: rights_basis: public_domain, attribution_required: false.

Acceptance criteria

  • New avraham_yitzhak_kook writer row in writers.jsonl with status: verified
  • At least 15 distinct letter forms added
  • All entries pass python3 scripts/validate_indexes.py --upstream-path <upstream>
  • python3 scripts/generate_release_artifacts.py --check passes
  • python3 -m pytest passes

Ingest notes

  • Start with commons__rav_kook_shemitah_letter__p0001 (explicitly noted as high-resolution in the upstream source description)
  • Rabbinic handwriting is typically compressed and ligature-heavy; final forms (kaf_final, mem_final, nun_final, pe_final, tsadi_final) appear distinctively at line ends and are worth careful attention
  • ayin and tet take stylised rabbinic forms that can look unfamiliar — document in quality.notes where relevant
  • letter.style should reflect rabbinic Ashkenazi cursive
  • entry_id format: avraham_yitzhak_kook__<letter_name>__v0001
  • File path: data/letters/avraham_yitzhak_kook/<letter_name>/avraham_yitzhak_kook__<letter_name>__v0001.<ext>

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