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    Hakham Bashi - חכם באשי (Ottoman Turkish: حاخامباشی, Turkish: Hahambaşı, IPA: [haˈham baˈʃɯ]; Ladino: xaxam (חכם) baši; translated into French as: khakham-bachi)...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Camondo family Elijah Capsali, first Hakham Bashi (Turkish: Chief Rabbi) of the Ottoman Empire Moses Capsali, Hakham Bashi Isaac Carasso, Ottoman Jewish entrepreneur...
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  • 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...
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    Ishak Haleva (born 1940 in Istanbul, Turkey) is the current Hakham Bashi (Chief Rabbi) (Turkish: Hahambaşı) of Turkey. Before becoming the Chief Rabbi...
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  • Chief Rabbi David Asseo (1914 – July 14, 2002) was the hakham bashi (or chief rabbi) of the Republic of Turkey from 1960 until his death in 2002. Chief...
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  • from a verse in Isaiah 41:27. Between 1842 and 1920 the position of Hakham Bashi of Palestine was officially recognised by the Ottoman and British governments...
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    considerable amount of administrative autonomy and were represented by the Hakham Bashi, the Turkish term for the Chief Rabbi. There were no restrictions in...
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    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...
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    Makhlouf Eldaoudi (Hebrew: מכלוף אלדאודי; 1825–1909) was the Hakham Bashi (Turkish for the Chief Rabbi) of the Jewish communities of Acre, Haifa, Safed...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Camondo family Elijah Capsali, first Hakham Bashi (Turkish: Chief Rabbi) of the Ottoman Empire Moses Capsali, Hakham Bashi Isaac Carasso, Ottoman Jewish entrepreneur...
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    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...
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  • ul-Islam, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, the chief rabbi (Hakham Bashi) and a representative of the Armenian Apostolic Church. The fact that...
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    constitutional period) Assembly Senate Chamber of Deputies Millets Islam Shaykh al-Islām Christianity Rūm Ullah Bulgarian Armenian Judaism Hakham Bashi...
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    during the Ottoman period. Jewish religious matters were handled by the Hakham Bashi and the Jewish courts. Article 14 of the British Mandate of Palestine...
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  • Beit Din Chief Rabbi Choizer Reb yoel Fellow Student Gadol Gaon Hakham Hakham Bashi Illui Kohen Gadol Lamdan Maggid Maran Mashgiach ruchani Mashpia Meiniach...
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    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...
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  • Ivanhoe serves this purpose to Prince John and other nobles. Crown rabbi Hakham Bashi Jewish heraldry Jewish oath Judenhut Landesrabbiner List of British Jewish...
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    first Orthodox Patriarch, and established a Jewish Grand Rabbinate (Ḥakham Bashi) and the prestigious Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople in the capital...
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    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...
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    supported by the Hakham Bashi in Constantinople, because of his Zionist affiliations. He was subsequently inducted as Hakham Bashi of the Land of Israel...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Preveza 3. Peasant woman from around Trikala 1: Hodja from Saloniki 2. Hakham Bashi of Saloniki 3. Burgher from Monastir 1: Muslim lady from Saloniki 2....
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    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...
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