Hakham Bashi - חכם באשי (Ottoman Turkish: حاخامباشی, Turkish: Hahambaşı, IPA: [haˈham baˈʃɯ]; Ladino: xaxam (חכם) baši; translated into French as: khakham-bachi)...

Chief Rabbi of the Ottoman Empire was called the Hakham Bashi (Hahambaşı حاخامباشی). Although the word ḥākhām is derived from the common Semitic root Ḥ-K-M...

Camondo family Elijah Capsali, first Hakham Bashi (Turkish: Chief Rabbi) of the Ottoman Empire Moses Capsali, Hakham Bashi Isaac Carasso, Ottoman Jewish entrepreneur...

Camondo family Elijah Capsali, first Hakham Bashi (Turkish: Chief Rabbi) of the Ottoman Empire Moses Capsali, Hakham Bashi Isaac Carasso, Ottoman Jewish entrepreneur...

The Chief Rabbi of Israel is a religious appointment that began at the time of the British Mandate in Palestine, and continued through to the State of...

יצחק חליבה, Turkish: İsak Haleva) (27 April 1940 – 14 January 2025) was Hakham Bashi (Chief Rabbi) (Turkish: Hahambaşı) of Turkey. Haleva was born in Istanbul...

from a verse in Isaiah 41:27. Between 1842 and 1920 the position of Hakham Bashi of the Damascus Bilayet was officially recognised by the Ottoman and...

Smyrna (İzmir) and author in Ladino and Hebrew. His titles included Hakham Bashi and Gaon. He was the father of grand rabbis Abraham Palacci and Isaac...

translator, and historical negationist. Ishak Haleva, 84, Turkish rabbi, Hakham Bashi (since 2002). (death announced on this date) Marc Hollogne, 63, Belgian...

ḥ-k-m). Adjectival ḥakham "wise" is used as a honorific, as in Talmid Chakham (lit. "student of a sage") for a Torah scholar, or Hakham Bashi for a Chief Rabbi...

death c. 1495) as Hakham Bashi "Grand Rabbi" of the Ottoman empire; he held this position for the rest of his life. As Hakham Bashi he was known for his...

Moses ben Elijah Capsali (Hebrew: משה בן אליהו קפשאלי) (1495–1420) was Hakham Bashi (Chief Rabbi) of the Ottoman Empire. Moses ben Elijah Capsali was born...

considerable amount of administrative autonomy and were represented by the Hakham Bashi, the Turkish term for the Chief Rabbi. There were no restrictions in...

also influential Jewish diaspora, a similar position was granted to the Hakham Bashi, i.e., chief rabbi. In modern Greek usage, the term has the connotation...

1654–1696) was the Rishon LeZion (Sephardic chief Rabbi of Israel), Hakham Bashi (chief rabbi of the Ottoman Empire) and the head of a major yeshiva in...

Makhlouf Eldaoudi (Hebrew: מכלוף אלדאודי; 1825–1909) was the Hakham Bashi (Turkish for the Chief Rabbi) of the Jewish communities of Acre, Haifa, Safed...

Hodja of Salonika, today's Thessaloniki (first on the right, with the Hakham Bashi of Salonika on the left and a Monastir town dweller in the middle), from...

for decades to come, determining the Chief Rabbis of the towns and the Hakham Bashi of the Ottoman Empire until their leading position was lost to a wave...

was given to the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. In 1842, the position of "Hakham Bashi", Chief Rabbi of Constantinople who represented the Turkish Jews before...

ul-Islam, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, the chief rabbi (Hakham Bashi) and a representative of the Armenian Apostolic Church. The fact that...

scholar of Baghdad, though he never filled the official position of Hakham Bashi. The Sephardic Porat Yosef Yeshiva in Jerusalem was founded on his advice...

transforming. The Iraqi Jewish community introduced the Hakham Bashi, or Chief Rabbinate, in 1849, with Hakham Ezra Dangoor leading the community. The chief rabbi...

not help. The Samaritan people were eventually helped by the Jewish Hakham Bashi Chaim Abraham Gagin, who decreed that the Samaritans are "a branch of...

movement, who gained power in 1908. In 1909 Nahum succeeded Moses Levi as Hakham Bashi, or chief rabbi, of the Ottoman Empire. "Nahum invested much effort in...

Moses Levi (or Moshe HaLevi Effendi) (1827–1910) was the Chief Rabbi (Hakham Bashi) of Constantinople and of the Ottoman Empire. Levi was first appointed...

Ivanhoe serves this purpose to Prince John and other nobles. Crown rabbi Hakham Bashi Jewish heraldry Jewish oath Judenhut Landesrabbiner List of British Jewish...

first Orthodox Patriarch, and established a Jewish Grand Rabbinate (Ḥakham Bashi) and the prestigious Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople in the capital...

Orthodox Armenian Apostolic Syriac Orthodox Coptic Orthodox Judaism Hakham Bashi Provincial Eyalets Beylerbeys Vilayets Sanjaks Sanjakbeys Mutasarrifates...

self-proclaimed Dönme identity and presented the Dönme and their beliefs. As the Hakham Bashi of Turkey and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel did not accept the Dönme...

considerable amount of administrative autonomy and were represented by the Hakham Bashi (Turkish: Hahambaşı حاخامباشی), who held broad powers to enact, judge...