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'Chief Rabbi' is a title given in several countries to the recognised 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 centres 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.
=Chief rabbis by country/region=
Argentina
★ Shlomo Ben Hamo
Austria
★ Akiva Eisenberg
★ Paul Chaim Eisenberg
Belgium
★ Avraham Guigui — (2005-present)
British Empire and Commonwealth
:''See also: List of chief rabbis of the United Kingdom''
★ Judah Loeb Cohen — (1696-1700)
★ Aaron the Scribe of Dublin — (1700-1704)
★ Aaron Hart — (1704-1756)
★ Hart Lyon — (1758-1764)
★ David Tevele Schiff — (1765-1791)
★ Solomon Hirschell — (1802-1842)
★ Nathan Marcus Adler — (1845-1891)
★ Hermann Adler — (1891-1911)
★ Joseph Herman Hertz — (1913-1946)
★ Sir Israel Brodie — (1948-1965)
★ Lord Jakobovits — (1966-1991)
★ Sir Jonathan Sacks — (1991–present)
Cuba
★ Meir Rosenbaum — (1910-2003) (Son of Rabbi Issamar of Nadvorna, Elected 1948: left Cuba in 1956, a little more than two years before Fidel Castro came to power in the Revolution)
Egypt
★ Chaim Nahum — (1909-1960)
Estonia
★ Michael Alony — (1995-1996)
★ Shmuel Kot — (2000-present)
Finland
★ Michael Alony — (1995-1996)
France
★ Jacob Kaplan — (1955-1981)
★ René Samuel Sirat — (1981-1987)
★ Joseph Sitruk — (1987-present)
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) [2]
★ 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
★ Yedidiah Shofet
★ Uriel Davidi
★ Mollah Yosef — ( -present)
Ireland
★ Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog — (1921-1937)
★ Immanuel Jakobovits — (1949-1958)
★ David Rosen — (1979-1985)
★ Gavin Broder — (1996-2000)
★ Yaakov Pearlman — (2001–present)
Israel
:''See also: Chief Rabbinate of Israel''
During the pre-state years, the British instituted the Chief Rabbinate which would become the official state rabbinate of the State of Israel upon the founding of that state. 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 Beer Sheba). 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.
Ashkenazi
★ Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog — (1948-1959)
★ Isser Yehuda Unterman — (1964-1973)
★ Shlomo Goren — (1973-1983)
★ Avraham Shapira — (1983-1993)
★ Yisrael Meir Lau — (1993-2003)
★ Yona Metzger — (2003–present)
Sephardi
★ Benzion Uziel — (1948-1954)
★ Yitzhak Nissim — (1955-1973)
★ Ovadia Yosef — (1973-1983)
★ Mordechai Eliyahu — (1983-1993)
★ Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron — (1993-2003)
★ Shlomo Amar — (2003–present)
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)
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Ashkenazi
★ Abraham Isaac Kook — (1921-1935)
★ Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog — (1936-1948)
Sephardi
★ Jacob Meir — (1921-1939)
★ Benzion Uziel — (1939-1948)
Morocco
★ Chalom Messas
Mexico
★ Jacob Avigdor — (1952-1967)
Poland
:''See also List of Polish Rabbis''
★ Ber Percowicz — (1945-1961)
★ Uszer Zibes — (1961-1966)
★ Zew Wawa Morejno — (1966-1973)
★ Pinchas Menachem Joskowicz — (1988-1999)
★ Michael Schudrich — (2004–present)
Russia
★ Adolf Shayevich — (1983, officially since 1993-present)
★ Berel Lazar — (2000-present) representing Chabad-Lubavitch
South Africa
★ Louis Rabinowitz — (1945-1961)
★ Bernard M. Casper
★ Cyril Harris
★ Warren Goldstein — (2005-present)
Thailand
★ Yosef Kantor
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Note: The chief rabbi of Transylvania was generally the rabbi of the city of Gyulafehérvár (also known as Alba Iulia and Karlsburg).
★ 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
★ Chaim Madar — (1984-2004)
Turkey
:''See also Hakham Bashi''
★ 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)
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]
Venezuela
Sephardi
★ Isaac Cohen
Ashkenazi
★ Pynchas Brener
=Chief rabbis by city=
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★ Tzvi Ashkenazi
★ Aryeh Ralbag
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★ Chaim Kreiswirth — (1953-2001)
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★ Abraham N. Schwartz — (d. 1934)
★ Joseph H. Feldman — (retired 1972, d. 1992)
★ Mordechai Scheiner (2002-presesnt)
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★ Yonasan Steif, pre-World War Two
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Ashkenazi
★ Isaac Cohén — ( –present)
Sephardi
★ Pynchas Brener — ( –present)
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★ Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky known as the ''Ridbaz'', served as chief rabbi of the Russian-American congregations in the city from 1903-1905.
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Ashkenazi
★ She'ar Yashuv Cohen
Sephardi
★ Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron — (1975-1993)
Hebron
★ Chaim Hezekiah Medini — (1891-1904)
Hoboken, New Jersey
★ Chaim Hirschensohn — (1904-1935). His post included Hoboken, Jersey City, Union Hill and the Environs. [3]
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Ashkenazi
★ Meir Auerbach — (-1878)
★ Shmuel Salant — (1878-1909)
★ Chaim Berlin — (1909-1915)
★ Tzvi Pesach Frank
Sephardi
★ Jacob Saul Elyashar
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★ Simon de Vries
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Ashkenazi
★ Pinchas Hirschprung — (1969-1998) [4]
★ Avraham David Niznik — (1998-2006) [5][6]
Sephardi
★ David Sabbah [7]
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★ Yakov Maze — (prior to 1924)
★ Shmarya Yehuda Leib Medalia — (1933-1938)
★ Shmuel Leib Levin — (1943-1944)
★ Shlomo Shleifer — (1944-1957)
★ Yehuda Leib Levin — (1957-1972)
★ Adolf Shayevitch — (1983, officially since 1993-present)
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★ Pinchos Biberfeld, moved back to Germany from where he had emigratd 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)
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★ Jacob Joseph was the only true chief rabbi of New York City. However, others claimed the title also; 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
★ Dr. Ernest Klein — (1931-1944)
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★ Israel Zolli — (1940-1943)
★ Elio Toaff — (1951-2002)
★ Riccardo Di Segni — (2002-present)
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★ Josiyahu Pardo
★ Arye Leib Breslau
★ Dr. Joseph Isaacsohn
★ Dr. Bernhard Löbel Ritter
★ A.B.N. Davids
★ Lou Vorst — (1945-1971)
★ A. Hutterer
★ Raphael Evers
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★ Menachem Zvi Eichenstein
★ Sholom Rivkin [8] ( -present)
Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Sephardi
★ Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel — (1911-1939)
★ Ovadia Yosef — (1968-1973)
★ Hayim David HaLevi — (1973-1998?)
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★ Paul Chaim Eisenberg
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★ Pinchas Menachem Joskowicz — (1988-1999)
★ Michael Schudrich — (2004–present)
References
1. http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2000/issue4/jv4n4a3.html
2. Personality of the week: Issachar Berush Eskeles
3. Title page of Malki Ba-Kodesh, vol. 2; Hoboken, 1921
4. http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=7872
5. Bnei Brak rabbi named to new beit din post
6. http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=3993#more-3993
7. http://www.rabbinat.qc.ca/
8. http://www.congki-annapolis.org/clergy.htm
External links
★ Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
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