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Contents
- 1 Chief rabbis by
country/region
- 2 Chief rabbis by city
- 2.1 The Netherlands
- 2.2 Antwerp, Belgium
- 2.3 Baltimore,
United States
- 2.4
Birobidzhan, Russia
- 2.5
Budapest, Hungary
- 2.6
Caracas, Venezuela
- 2.7
Chicago, United States
- 2.8
Frankfurt, Germany
- 2.9 Haifa, Israel
- 2.10 Hebron, Israel
- 2.11 Hoboken, United
States
- 2.12
Hong Kong, China
- 2.13
Jerusalem, Israel
- 2.14 Leiden, the
Netherlands
- 2.15
Montreal, Canada
- 2.16 Toronto, Canada
- 2.17 Moscow, Russia
- 2.18 Munich, Germany
- 2.19 New York City,
United States
- 2.20 Nové Zámky,
Slovakia
- 2.21 Rome,
Italy
- 2.22 Milan, Italy
- 2.23 Rotterdam, the
Netherlands
- 2.24 Sofia, Bulgaria
- 2.25
St. Louis, Missouri
- 2.26 Tel Aviv-Jaffa,
Israel
- 2.27 Vienna, Austria
- 2.28 Warsaw, Poland
- 2.29
Zurich, Switzerland
- 3 References
- 4 External links
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Chief Rabbi is a title given in several
countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish
community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular
authorities. Since 1911, through a capitulation by Rabbi Uziel, Israel has had two chief rabbis, one Ashkenazi and one Sephardi.[1]
Cities with large Jewish communities may also have their own
chief rabbis; this is especially the case in Israel but has also been past practice in major
Jewish centers in Europe prior
to the Holocaust. North American cities have
rarely had chief rabbis, although some do have them: Montreal, in fact, has two —
one for the Ashkenazi community, the other for the Sephardi.
The Chief Rabbi's name is often followed by ABD, which stands
for Av Beth Din.
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Chief rabbis by
country/region
Argentina
Ashkenazi
- Shlomo Ben Hamu (though he is Sephardi)
Sephardi
Australia
Austria
- Akiva Eisenberg
- Paul Chaim Eisenberg
British
Empire and Commonwealth
Bulgaria
- Gabriel Almosnino (1880-1885)
- Presiado Bakish (1885-1889)
- Shimon Dankowitz (1889-1891)
- Moshe Tadjer (1891-1893)
- Mordechai Gruenwald (1893-1895)
- Presiado Bakish (1895-1898)
- Moshe Tadje (1898-1900)
- Mordekhay Ehrenpreiss (1900-1914)
- M. Hezkeya Shabetay Davidov (1914-1918)
- David Pipano— (1920-1925)
- Asher Hannanel (1945-1949)
Chile
China
See chief Rabbis of
Hong Kong, China.
Cuba
Cyprus
Egypt
- Refael Aharon Ben Shimon (1891-1921)
- Masoud Hai Ben Shimon (1921-1925)
- Chaim Nahum —
(1925-1960)
- Haim Douek —
(1960-1972)
Estonia
- Michael Alony — (1995-1996)
- Shmuel Kot — (2000-present)
Finland
- Uri Ove Schwarz - (1982-1987)
- Michael Alony — (1995-1996)
France
Guatemala
- Meir Rosenbaum — (Son of Rabbi Issamar of Nadvorna, Later Chief Rabbi of Cuba)
Hungary
- Note that this list is out of order.
- Meir
Eisenstadt known as the Panim Me'iros (1708-), rabbi
of Eisenstadt and author of "Panim Me'irot"
- Alexander ben Menahem
- Phinehas Auerbach
- Jacob Eliezer Braunschweig
- Hirsch Semnitz
- Simon Jolles — (1717-?)
- Samson
Wertheimer — (1693?-1724)(also Eisenstadt and Moravia)
- Issachar Berush Eskeles — (1725-1753) [6]
- Joseph Hirsch Weiss — (Grandfather
of Stephen Samuel Wise.)[1] [2]
- Samuel Kohn
- Ferenc Hevesi
- Moshe Kunitzer — (1828-1837), a pioneer of the Haskalah
movement in Hungary.
- Alfréd Schöner
- Koppel Reich
- Chaim Yehuda Deutsch
- József Schweitzer
Iran
Ireland
Israel
The position of chief rabbi of the Land of Israel has existed
for hundreds of years. During the mandatory period, the British
recognized the chief Rabbis of the Ashkenazi and Sephardi
communities, just as they recognized the Mufti of Jerusalem. The
offices continued after statehood was achieved. Haredi Jewish groups (such
as Edah
HaChareidis) do not recognize the authority of the Chief
Rabbinate. They usually have their own rabbis who do not have any
connection to the state rabbinate.
Please note that under current Israeli law, the post of Chief
Rabbi exists in only four cities (Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beersheba). In other cities there may be one
main rabbi to whom the other rabbis of that city defer, but that
post is not officially the "Chief Rabbi".
Many of Israel's chief rabbis were previously chief rabbis of
Israeli cities.
Military
Rabbinate
Mandate of
Palestine
Italy
Lebanon
- Rabbi Danon — (1908-1909)
- Jacob Maslaton — (1910-1921)
- Salomon Tagger — (1921-1923)
- Shabtai Bahbout — (1924-1950)
- Benzion Lichtman — (1932-1959)
- Jacob Attiyeh — (1949-1966)
- Chaoud Chreim — (1960-1978)
Mexico
Morocco
- Mardo Chee Bengio - click here for a letter written by Rav
Bengio [9]
- Rabbi Mikail Encaoua
- Chalom
Messas
Poland
Russia
Serbia
Singapore
South
Africa
Thailand
Transylvania (before
1918)
Note: The chief rabbi of Transylvania was generally the rabbi of
the city of Alba
Iulia.
- Joseph Reis Auerbach — (d. 1750)
- Shalom Selig ben Saul Cohen — (1754-1757)
- Johanan ben Isaac — (1758-1760)
- Benjamin Ze'eb Wolf of Cracow — (1764-1777)
- Moses ben Samuel Levi Margaliot — (1778-1817)
- Menahem ben Joshua Mendel — (1818-23)
- Ezekiel Paneth — (1823-1843)
- Abraham Friedmann — (d. 1879), the last chief rabbi of
Transylvania
Tunisia
Turkey
- Eli Capsali — (1452 - 1454)
- Moses
Capsali — (1454 - 1497)
- Elijah
Mizrachi — (1497 - 1526)
- Mordechai Komitano — (1526 - 1542)
- Tam ben Yahya — (1542 - 1543)
- Eli Rozanes ha - Levi — (1543)
- Eli ben Hayim — (1543 - 1602)
- Yehiel Bashan — (1602 - 1625)
- Joseph Mitrani — (1625 - 1639)
- Yomtov Benyaes — (1639 - 1642)
- Yomtov Hananiah Benyakar — (1642 - 1677)
- Chaim Kamhi — (1677 - 1715)
- Judah Benrey — (1715 - 1717)
- Samuel Levi — (1717 - 1720)
- Abraham Rozanes — (1720 - 1745)
- Solomon Hayim Alfandari — (1745 - 1762)
- Meir Ishaki — (1762 - 1780)
- Eli Palombo — (1780 - 1800)
- Chaim Jacob Benyakar —( 1800 - 1835)
- Abraham Levi Pasha — (1835 - 1839)
- Samuel Hayim — (1839 - 1841)
- Moiz Fresko — (1841 - 1854)
- Yacob Avigdor — (1854 - 1870)
- Yakir Geron —
(1870 - 1872)
- Moses Levi — (1872 - 1909)
- Chaim Nahum
Effendi — (1909 - 1920)
- Shabbetai Levi — (1920-1922)
- Isaac Ariel — (1922-1926)
- Haim Bejerano — (1926-1931)
- Haim Isaac Saki — (1931-1940)
- Rafael David Saban — (1940-1960)
- David Asseo —
(1961-2002)
- Ishak Haleva —
(2003-present)
Uganda
Ukraine
- Yaakov Dov
Bleich - (1992-present) - original post-communism chief rabbi,
still widely recognized Chief Rabbi of Ukraine and Kiev
- Alex Dukhovny - The Progressive (Liberal/Reform) Chief
Rabbi of Kiev and Ukraine
- Azriel Haikin - (2003-present) - Chabad affiliated
- not fully recognized as Ukraine Chief Rabbi, but heads the
Ukrainian Chabad [3]
- Moshe
Reuven Azman - (2005-present) - rabbi from Chabad, though
elected mostly by secular Jewish leaders and not by any rabbinical
authority [4]
United
States
A chief Rabbinate never truly developed within the United States
for a number of different reasons. While Jews first settled in the
United States in 1654 in New Amsterdam, Rabbis did not appear in
the United States until the mid-Nineteenth Century. This lack of
Rabbis, coupled with the lack of official colonial or state
recognition of a particular sect of Judaism as official (e.g.
Ottolengui v. Ancker) effectively led to a form congregationalism amongst American Jews.
This did not stop others from trying to create a unified American
Judaism, and in fact, some chief Rabbis developed in some American
cities despite lacking universal recognition amongst the Jewish
communities within the cities (for examples see below). However, Jonathan Sarna
argues that those two precedents, as well as the desire of many
Jewish immigrants to the US to break from an Orthodox past,
effectively prevented any effective Chief Rabbi in America.[10]
Uruguay
Venezuela
Chief
rabbis by city
The
Netherlands
Interprovincial Chief
Rabbinate
- Elieser Berlinger 1960-1985
Amsterdam
- Menashe Ben Israel
- Aron Schuster
- Meir Just 1970-1978 (shlita)
- Aryeh Ralbag (2008-recent)
Rotterdam
Antwerp,
Belgium
Baltimore, United
States
- Abraham N. Schwartz — (d. 1934)
- Joseph H. Feldman — (retired 1972, d. 1992)
Birobidzhan, Russia
Budapest,
Hungary
Caracas,
Venezuela
Ashkenazi
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Sephardi
- Isaac Cohén — ( –present)
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Chicago, United States
- Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky known as
the Ridbaz, served as chief rabbi of the Russian-American
congregations in the city from 1903-1905.
Frankfurt,
Germany
Haifa,
Israel
Hebron,
Israel
Hoboken, United States
Hong Kong,
China
Jerusalem,
Israel
Ashkenazi
Since Rav Kolitz stepped down for reason of ill health (of which
he died within a year), the position of Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of
Jerusalem has gone vacant.
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Sephardi
Since Rav Messas died in office, the position of Sephardi Chief
Rabbi of Jerusalem has gone vacant.
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Edah
HaChareidis
- Note: The Edah HaChareidis is unaffiliated with
the State of Israel. It is a separate,
independent religious community with its own Chief Rabbis, who are
viewed, in the Haredi world, as being the Chief Rabbis of
Jerusalem.
Leiden, the Netherlands
Montreal,
Canada
Ashkenazi
- Pinchas Hirschprung — (1969-1998) [12]
- Avraham David Niznik — (1998-2006) [12][13]
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Sephardi
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Present Av Beis Din Montreal Rav Binyomin Weiss, head of the
city's Vaad Hair.
Toronto,
Canada
Moscow,
Russia
Munich,
Germany
- Pinchos
Biberfeld, moved back to Germany from where he had emigrated to
Israel over 50 years earlier. (1980-1999)
- Steven Langnas, the first not German born (yet of German
descent) Chief Rabbi and Av Beis Din of Munich —
(1999-present)
New York City, United
States
- Jacob Joseph
was the only true Ashkenazi chief rabbi of New York City; there was
never a Sephardi chief rabbi, although Dr. David DeSola Pool acted
as a leader among the Sepharadim and was also respected as such.
Others it has been said claimed the title of Chief Rabbi;
eventually, the title became worthless through dilution.
- Yosef Yitzchok Parnes, the Brooklyner Rebbe, was also
considered as such, arriving in Borough Park, Brooklyn in approximately
1913; due to the many non-observant Jews then working for the local
utility companies, he did not use any electricity on the Sabbath.
Many religious Jews in America in the early 1900s were his
adherents.
Nové Zámky,
Slovakia
Rome,
Italy
Milan,
Italy
- Avraham David Shaumann —
- Elia Kopciovsky — (195-1980)
- Giuseppe Laras — (1980-2005)
- Alfonso Arbib — (2005-present)
Rotterdam, the
Netherlands
- Josiyahu Pardo
- Arye Leib Breslau
- Dr. Joseph Isaacsohn
- Dr. Bernhard Löbel Ritter
- A.B.N. Davids
- Justus Tal
- S.A. Rodrigues Pereira
- Lou Vorst — (rabbi 1945-1959; chief rabbi 1959-1971)
- Daniel Kahn
- Albert Hutterer
- L.B. van de Kamp
- Raphael
Evers
Sofia,
Bulgaria
- Daniel Zion — in
World War Two
- Asher Hannanel — in World War Two
St. Louis,
Missouri
- Chaim Fischel Epstein
- Menachem Zvi Eichenstein 1943-1982
- Sholom Rivkin [15] (
-present)
Tel
Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
Sephardi
Vienna,
Austria
- Akiva Eisenberg
- Paul Chaim Eisenberg
Warsaw,
Poland
- Pinchas Menachem Joskowicz — (1988-1999)
- Baruch Rabinowitz (1999-2000)
- Michael
Schudrich — (2000–present)
Zurich,
Switzerland
References
- ^
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef And His
Culture War In Israel
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Jewish Travel
Advisor
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Rabbis of Chilean Masorti
Forum meet with Mr. Zeev Bielsky Masorti World
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The Virtual Jewish History
Tour Cuba Jewish Virtual Library
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The Jewish Traveler:
Havana Hadassah Magazine
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"Personality of the week:
Issachar Berush Eskeles". Beit
Hatefutsot. http://www.bh.org.il/NAMES/POW/Eskeles.asp.
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http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jspartid=2123&letter=A&search=auerbach?
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CHIEF RABBI SALANT DIES IN
JERUSALEM; Head of the Ashkanezic Congregat... - Article Preview -
The New York Times
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http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B02EFDD173EE733A25753C1A9609C946797D6CF
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Jonathan Sarna, 'American Judaism: A History', New Haven: Yale
University Pres, 2004.
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Title page of Malki Ba-Kodesh, vol. 2; Hoboken, 1921
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Bnei Brak rabbi named to new
beit din post
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The Yeshiva World - Frum
Jewish News
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Grand Rabbinat du Québec
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Meet Rabbi Moshe P.
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