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Hakham Bashi (Ottoman Chief Rabbinate)

The Ottoman Empire's institutional Chief Rabbinate that gave Sephardic-Mizrachi Jewry centralized leadership as a formal office from 1835 until the empire's end (~1920), continuing a Sephardic chief-rabbinate that traces back to Moshe Capsali in the 15th century.

The Ottoman Empire's institutional Chief Rabbinate that gave Sephardic-Mizrachi Jewry centralized leadership from 1834 to 1918.

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