Persian Chief Rabbi
1908 CE–2005 CE · Modern · Kashan
R. Yedidya Shofet (1908-2005) was the Chief Rabbi of Iran from 1944 until the 1979 Islamic Revolution, guiding the Persian Jewish community through some of the most turbulent decades of its long history. Born in Kashan and educated in Jerusalem, he became chief rabbi of Tehran in 1944 and the senior figure of Iranian Jewry. His leadership preserved Iranian Jewish institutions through Reza Shah's modernization, the Mossadegh era, and Mohammad Reza Shah's Pahlavi monarchy. After the 1979 revolution he left Iran and moved to Los Angeles where he served the large Iranian-American Jewish community in exile. His memoir is a primary source for modern Persian Jewish history.
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Kashan
What they did here
Born in Kashan, central Iran; raised in the Kashani Jewish community.
About Kashan
Kashan, on the edge of the central Iranian desert, was a town noted for its ceramics (whence the term 'kashi' for tilework) and a centre of Shi'i learning. The philosopher and traditionist al-Fayd al-Kashani (d. 1680), a student of Mulla Sadra and major figure of the Safavid intellectual world, took his nisba from the city.
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Persian Chief Rabbi’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
In the same tradition
Ba'al HaLeshem, Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Alter of Slabodka, Minhat Yehuda, Rav Kook, Moshe Mordechai Epstein, Imrei Emes, Yehuda Leib Chasman, Isser Zalman Meltzer, Yaakov Chaim Sofer (Kaf HaChaim), Yechiel Michel Tukachinsky, Yechiel Michel Tukatchinsky, Yisrael Zev Mintzberg, Tzvi Pesach Frank, Jacob Nachum Epstein, Mishpetei Uziel, Yaakov Moshe Charlap, Kodzhaglover Rav
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Persian Chief Rabbi’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Jewish world
- Yitzhak Kaduri· 1898 CE–2006 CE
- Rabbi Ephraim Oshry· 1908 CE–2003 CE
- R. Avigdor Miller· 1908 CE–2001 CE
- Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam· 1908 CE–2000 CE
- Rabbi Shimon Schwab· 1908 CE–1995 CE
- R. Shalom Mashash· 1909 CE–2003 CE
- Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Minchat Shlomo)· 1910 CE–1995 CE
- Yosef Shalom Elyashiv (senior Litvish posek)· 1910 CE–2012 CE
- Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg· 1910 CE–2012 CE
- R. Sholom Noah Berezovsky· 1911 CE–2000 CE
- Rabbi Simcha Zissel Broide· 1912 CE–2000 CE
- Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung· 1912 CE–1998 CE
- Rabbi Shalom Schwadron· 1912 CE–1997 CE
- Ephraim Urbach· 1912 CE–1991 CE
- Rabbi Avraham Yaakov HaKohen Pam· 1913 CE–2001 CE
- Shlomo Wolbe (Alei Shur)· 1914 CE–2005 CE
- R. Mordechai Gifter (Telshe Cleveland)· 1915 CE–2001 CE
- Eliezer Waldenberg· 1915 CE–2006 CE
- R. Yosef Kapach (Qafih)· 1917 CE–2000 CE
- Shlomo Goren· 1918 CE–1994 CE
- Rabbi Nachum Partzovitz· 1923 CE–1986 CE
- Ben Zion Abba Shaul· 1924 CE–1998 CE
- R. Chaim David HaLevi· 1924 CE–1998 CE
- Aryeh Kaplan· 1934 CE–1983 CE
Buddhist world
Scientists
Luminaries & Explorers world
Christian world
Rulers world
- Ronald Reagan· 1911 CE–2004 CE
- Richard Nixon· 1913 CE–1994 CE
- Gerald Ford· 1913 CE–2006 CE
- Julius Nyerere· 1922 CE–1999 CE
- Deng Xiaoping· 1904 CE–1997 CE
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi· 1919 CE–1980 CE
- Yuri Andropov· 1914 CE–1984 CE
- Konstantin Chernenko· 1911 CE–1985 CE
- Nelson Mandela· 1918 CE–2013 CE
- Emperor Hirohito (Showa)· 1901 CE–1989 CE
- Georgy Malenkov· 1902 CE–1988 CE
- Leonid Brezhnev· 1906 CE–1982 CE
- Gamal Abdel Nasser· 1918 CE–1970 CE
- George H. W. Bush· 1924 CE–2018 CE
Works
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