Yaakov Shaul Elyashar
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Yaakov Shaul Elyashar, also known as Yisa Berakhah, was a 19th-century Sephardi rabbi in Ottoman Syria. He became Hakham Bashi or Sephardi Chief Rabbi of the Land of Israel in 1893.
Yaakov Shaul Elyashar
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
Yaakov Shaul Elyashar
…Hebrew: יעקב שאול אלישר; 1 June 1817 – 21 July 1906), also known as Yisa Berakhah, was a 19th-century Sephardi rabbi in Ottoman Syria. He became Hakham Bashi or Sephardi Chief Rabbi of the Land of Israel ( Palestine) in 1893. Yaakov Shaul Elyashar was born in Safed to a prominent Sephardi rabbinical family…
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