Rethinking Rabbinical Leadership in Ottoman Jewish Communities

This article reexamines the role of rabbinical leadership among Ottoman Jews. It defines the Ottoman Jewish experience by rabbis' ability to enforce a communal culture in which the center of individual and collective life revolved around Jewish law; by the part rabbis and lay leaders played in...

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Main Author: Ayalon, Yaron (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2017
In: The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2017, Volume: 107, Issue: 3, Pages: 323-353
Further subjects:B Muslims
B chief rabbi (rav rashi or haham başı)
B lay leaders (parnasim)
B frankos
B Sephardim
B Autonomy
B Rabbis
B millet system
B Ottoman Empire
B beit din
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