this file? See media help. A hazzan (/ˈhɑːzən/; Hebrew: [χaˈzan], lit. Hazan) or chazzan (Hebrew: חַזָּן, romanized: ḥazzān, plural ḥazzānim; Yiddish: חזן...

Hazan, Chazan, Chasen, Hasson, and Khazan are all alternative spellings of Hazzan, a Hebrew word carried over into most other Jewish languages that refers...

writer on religious subjects, and cantor of Posen, hence known also as Aaron Ḥazzan. He flourished during the seventeenth century. He was the author of Urim...

Hazzan, Idlib (Arabic: حزان) is a Syrian village located in Maarrat al-Nu'man Nahiyah in Maarrat al-Nu'man District, Idlib. According to the Syria Central...

This is a timeline of women hazzans (also called cantors) worldwide. 1884: Julie Rosewald, called "Cantor Soprano" by her congregation, became America's...

Trigland [de] about the origin of Karaism. Also known as Joseph ben Samuel ha-Ḥazzan (Hebrew: יוסף בן שמואל החזן) and Joseph ben Samuel Rodi (Hebrew: יוסף בן...

Joseph Pardo (c. 1624 – 1677) was an English hazzan. He appears to have gone to London from Amsterdam, where his father, David, was a rabbi. He wrote "Shulhan...

the Jewish tradition, a religious leader is often a rabbi (teacher) or hazzan (cantor). The word cleric comes from the ecclesiastical Latin Clericus,...

Deborah Davis is the first hazzan (also called cantor) of either sex (and therefore, since she is female, the first female hazzan) in Humanistic Judaism....

Hazzan Abraham “Abe” Lubin (born 1937) is a London-born American Conservative Jewish Hazzan and former President of the Cantors Assembly, who is the cantor...

Amoraim Savoraim Geonim Rishonim Acharonim Religious roles Rabbi Rebbe Posek Hazzan Dayan Rosh yeshiva Mohel Kohen Culture and education Brit Zeved habat Pidyon...

Bella Ḥazzan, née Horwitz, was an 18th-century Bohemian Yiddish writer. She was the daughter of the martyr Be'er ben Hezekiah ha-Levi Horwitz and wife...

Linda Rich is an American actress and hazzan. She majored in Theatre Arts and Music at San Francisco State University, and received scholarships to study...

in the center of the room, while the leader of the prayer service, the hazzan, stood at his own lectern or table, facing the Ark. In Sephardic synagogues...

Amoraim Savoraim Geonim Rishonim Acharonim Religious roles Rabbi Rebbe Posek Hazzan Dayan Rosh yeshiva Mohel Kohen Culture and education Brit Zeved habat Pidyon...

February 1739 – 3 January 1821), also known as the Bamberger Ḥazzan, was a German ḥazzan and composer, who served as chief cantor of the Jewish congregation...

Hebrew poet and ḥazzan. Originally from Salonika, Gallego moved to Amsterdam around 1614, where he served for fourteen years as the first ḥazzan of the city's...

dedicated hazzan. Jewish prayer services do involve two specified roles, which are sometimes, but not always, filled by a rabbi or hazzan in many congregations...

Amoraim Savoraim Geonim Rishonim Acharonim Religious roles Rabbi Rebbe Posek Hazzan Dayan Rosh yeshiva Mohel Kohen Culture and education Brit Zeved habat Pidyon...

1804, Hohenems, Vorarlberg – January 17, 1890, Vienna) was an Austrian hazzan (cantor) and composer. His family, which prior to 1813 bore the name of...

its Shabbat services. The Siddur is called Zehut Yosef and was written by Hazzan Isaac Azose. At Congregation Etz Ahaim of Highland Park, New Jersey, a congregation...

Amoraim Savoraim Geonim Rishonim Acharonim Religious roles Rabbi Rebbe Posek Hazzan Dayan Rosh yeshiva Mohel Kohen Culture and education Brit Zeved habat Pidyon...

Amoraim Savoraim Geonim Rishonim Acharonim Religious roles Rabbi Rebbe Posek Hazzan Dayan Rosh yeshiva Mohel Kohen Culture and education Brit Zeved habat Pidyon...

Kohanim are present in the synagogue (but there still is a minyan) the hazzan will read the prayer verse by verse, and the congregation will respond after...

Amoraim Savoraim Geonim Rishonim Acharonim Religious roles Rabbi Rebbe Posek Hazzan Dayan Rosh yeshiva Mohel Kohen Culture and education Brit Zeved habat Pidyon...

Amoraim Savoraim Geonim Rishonim Acharonim Religious roles Rabbi Rebbe Posek Hazzan Dayan Rosh yeshiva Mohel Kohen Culture and education Brit Zeved habat Pidyon...

Jacob ben Judah Hazzan was a 13th-century Jewish legal codifier based in London, England. His grandfather was one Jacob he-Aruk (possibly Jacob le Long)...

about his time at Jewish day schools, but nevertheless became trained as a hazzan (cantor) and encouraged his family to observe Shabbat. Draiman later enrolled...

Mizrahi Jews, the surname Hassan (חסן) is derived as a spelling variant of Hazzan ("cantor") and therefore most likely represents an alteration of this term...

Amoraim Savoraim Geonim Rishonim Acharonim Religious roles Rabbi Rebbe Posek Hazzan Dayan Rosh yeshiva Mohel Kohen Culture and education Brit Zeved habat Pidyon...