About Abraham Ashkenazi
Lived 1813 – 1880 (aged 66–67). Abraham Ashkenazi was a Turkish rabbi.
Avraham Ashkenazi (; 1813–1880) was a Sephardi chief rabbi (Rishon LeZion).
Rabbi Ashkenazi was born at Janishar, near Salonica, in 1813. Aged fifteen, he was taken by his father to Jerusalem, where he studied rabbinical literature in the various colleges. The Turkish rabbis, in consulting him at the age of 35 on matters of religious law, addressed him as "Gaon." In 1857 he became the Av Beth Din (chief judge) Ashkenazi was very popular among Christians and Muslims as well as among Jews; at his funeral most of the foreign consuls were present. He died at Jerusalem on January 22, 1880.
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Who was Abraham Ashkenazi?
rabbi (1813–1880)
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Abraham Ashkenazi was born in 1813.
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Abraham Ashkenazi died in 1880.
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Abraham Ashkenazi was a rabbi.
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Abraham Ashkenazi was Turkish.
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