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Photographic Image. Very Good. No Binding. 40 x 30 CM, possibly 1910's or earlier photographic portrait of the last Ottoman chief rabbi (Hakham bashi) who was one of the most eminent rabbis in the Middle East. Chaim (Haim) Nahum Effendi (1872-1960) was a Jewish scholar, jurist, and linguist of the early 1900s. He was born in 1872 in Izmir. He was sent by his parents to a yeshiva in Tiberias, after which he studied at a French lycée for his secondary education and obtained a degree in Islamic law in Istanbul. Thereafter, he attended a rabbinical academy in Paris, from which he received his semicha. At the same time, he studied linguistics, history, and philosophy at the Sorbonne's school of oriental languages. Upon his return to Istanbul, Nahum occupied various teaching positions, including at the Turkish military academy. While there, he became acquainted with many of the leaders of the Young Turk movement, who gained power in 1908. In 1909 Nahum succeeded Moses Levi as Hakham Bashi, or…
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Haim (Chaim) Nahum, the last Hakham Bashi (chief Rabbi), Ottoman dynasty photographic portrait
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