Hakham Bashi
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Hakham Bashi is the Turkish name for the Chief Rabbi of the nation's Jewish community. In the time of the Ottoman Empire it was also used for the chief rabbi of a particular region of the empire, such
Hakham Bashi of Salonika (now Thessaloniki) to the left of a Monastir town dweller and a Salonika hodja (Islamic teacher), from Les costumes populaires de la Turquie en 1873, published under the patronage of the Ottoman Imperial Commission for the 1873 Vienna World's Fair
Chief Rabbi Jacob Saul Dwek, Hakham Bashi of Aleppo, Ottoman Syria, 1908
Chaim Nahum
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Chaim Nahum Effendi was a Turkish Jewish scholar, jurist, and linguist of the early 20th century.
Hakham Bashi
…Fresco 1839–1841 Jacob Behar David 1841–1854 Ḥayyim ha-Kohen 1854–1860 Jacob (or Yakup) Avigdor 1860–1863 Yakir Geron 1863–1872 Moses Levi 1872–1908 Haim Nahum Effendi 1908–1920 Shabbetai Levi 1918–1919 Ishak Ariel 1919–1920 Chief Rabbis of the Turkish Republic (Hahambaşı) Haim Moşe Becerano 1920–1931 Haim…
Chaim Nahum with President Muhammad Naguib in 1953
As Chief Rabbi of the Ottoman Empire. Ottoman Postcard.