Chaim Nahum
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Chaim Nahum Effendi was a Turkish Jewish scholar, jurist, and linguist of the early 20th century.
Chaim Nahum with President Muhammad Naguib in 1953
As Chief Rabbi of the Ottoman Empire. Ottoman Postcard.
The Sha'ar HaShamayim Synagogue, also known as Temple Ismailia and the Adly Street Synagogue, is a synagogue, located at 17 Adly Street in Cairo, Egypt.
Chaim Nahum
…non-citizens". Around 1950, at age 78, Nahum became totally blind, but continued to carry on his duties as best he could. He continued to officiate at the Shaar Ha Shamayim synagogue, and could give long quotations from the Hebrew Bible and rabbinical texts from memory. However, he became greatly depressed by what he realized was…
The façade of the synagogue in 2013