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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

numbers around 100. Karaite Jews are not considered Jews by the Turkish Hakham Bashi. The exact number of Alawites in Turkey is unknown, but there were 185...

families and were living in happy circumstances. They were under a "Hakham Bashi" appointed by the Sublime Porte. Their dayyanim or rabbinical chiefs...

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...

communities' governing Jewish religious authorities. Court Jew Crown rabbi Hakham Bashi Josel of Rosheim Landesrabbiner Mordecai Maisel Isaac Rülf Schutzjude...

concepts. The opposition, the Iqshim, headed by Rabbi Yiḥya Yiṣḥaq, the Hakham Bashi, refused to deviate from the accepted customs and from the study of the...

Salomon Berdugo Yehuda Bibas Shalom Buzaglo Kotel Dadon Makhlouf Eldaoudi, Hakham Bashi of the Jewish communities of Acre, Haifa, Safed and Tiberias (1889–1909)...

of the Sephardim, called Tiferet Yerushalayim, was reorganized by the Hakham Bashi rabbi Raphael Meir Panigel in 1891, with 300 pupils and 13 teachers....

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...

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by a starost. Jews in both Wallachia and Moldavia were subject to the Hakham Bashi in Iași, but soon the Bucharest starost assumed several religious duties...