chazan

Where the Gloss is, The 'chazan' of the synagogue, that is, the minister.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Her father was a chazan at a local synagogue in Philadelphia and when she was asked to sing on the bimah, Jean refused in an attempt to uphold and respect her family's cultural traditions.

Personal Information for Jean Gornish Jewish Women's Archive 2010

Her father was a chazan at a local synagogue in Philadelphia and when she was asked to sing on the bimah, Jean refused in an attempt to uphold and respect her family's cultural traditions.

Personal Information for Jean Gornish 2010

Call me crazy but i thought the chazan at my conservative shul was really good.

Reform Teens Revolt | Jewschool 2007

Plenty of space for davening in the shul, nice people, and the chazan has this opera thing going.

nisayon Diary Entry nisayon 2002

During davening I sat next to my good friend Jason "the man" C. (another music guy) It was hard NOT to make fun of the chazan doing opera.

nisayon Diary Entry nisayon 2002

"The chazan of the synagogue takes the book, and gives it to the ruler of the synagogue; the ruler to the sagan; the sagan to the high priest," &c.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Tables were chiefly the work of Isaac ibn Sid, a Toledo _chazan_

Jewish Literature and Other Essays Gustav Karpeles 1878

The chazan, or "overseer," in the synagogue answered to the bishop or "angel" of the Church, who called seven of the synagogue to read the law every sabbath, and oversaw them.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Constantinople, to use the words of Gibbon, 'which had defied the power of Chosroes, the chazan, and the caliphs, was irretrievably subdued by the arms of Mohammed II.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 419 Volume 17, New Series, January 10, 1852 Various 1841