Moses Levi

Ottoman rabbi (1827–1910)

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Moses Levi (or Moshe HaLevi Effendi) (1827–1910) was the Chief Rabbi (Hakham Bashi) of Constantinople and of the Ottoman Empire.^[1]^[2]

Levi was first appointed to the rabbinical court at the behest of his father. He later was appointed to the position of chief rabbi following the emigration of Rabbi Yakir Giron.

References

^ Der Matossian, B. (2009). The Young Turk Revolution: Its Impact on Religious Politics of Jerusalem (1908–1912).
^ Harel, Y. (2005). The Importance of the Archive of the Hakham Bashi in Istanbul for the History of Ottoman Jewry. Frontiers of Ottoman Studies: State, Province and the West, 2, 1–64.