Ja'akov Moshe Toledano

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Ja'akov Moshe Toledano, 1960

Ja'akov Moshe Toledano ( Hebrew יעקב משה טולדאנו; * 1880 in Tiberias , Ottoman Empire ; † October 15, 1960 in Israel) was an Israeli rabbi and politician .

Life

After his school education he completed a rabbi training in his hometown. In 1903 his family moved to Corsica after a cholera epidemic . At the beginning of the First World War he had to leave Corsica together with other 700 Jews and then worked as a rabbi in Malta .

Toledano later worked as the Grand Rabbi of Cairo and Alexandria . After his election as the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv in 1942 he moved to that city in Mandate Palestine , succeeding Rabbi Ben Zion Uziel in this capacity until 1958. Although he was not a member of the Knesset , Toledano was appointed Minister of Religion on December 3, 1958 and carried out this office until November 1959. When David Ben-Gurion established a new government on December 17, 1959, he returned as minister of religion and held this office until his death.

family

Toledano came from a family of Moroccan Jews in Meknes who settled in Tiberias. Toledano's father, Judah, immigrated from Morocco. The family name TOLEDANO means coming from Toledo . The family was expelled from Spain in 1492 to settle in Salonika, Greece.

  1. Daniel TOLEDANO (born 1570 Saloniki, Greece, died 1640 Fez, Morocco). His son, Joseph TOLEDANO, was the founder of the most important family branch. He left Greece in 1600 with his wife and two sons to emigrate to Fez in Morocco.
    1. Rabbi Chaim TOLEDANO (born 1585 Saloniki, Greece, died 1660–1665 Meknes, Morocco). Rabbi and Dayan.
    2. Rabbi Joseph TOLEDANO (born 1590–1600 Saloniki, Greece, died 1670/1680 Meknes, Morocco). Rabbi and Dayan.
      1. Rabbi Daniel TOLEDANO (born 1606, died 1680). Rabbi, dayan and barater of Moulay Isma'il together with Joseph MAYMERAN.
      2. Rabbi Baruch TOLEDANO (born 1607, died 1685). Rabbi in Meknes, father of seven sons.
        1. Moses TOLEDANO, married to the daughter of Chaim ha-Chassid TOLEDANO
          1. Rabbi Chaim TOLEDANO (1690-1750) (The MaHaRHaT.).
          2. Rabbi Jacob TOLEDANO (1697–1771) (The MaHaRIT)
            1. Rabbi Baruch Toledano (1738-1817)
              1. Jacob Toledano
                1. Solomon Toledano (d. 1877). Rabbi in Meknes
                2. Joseph Toledano
                  1. Jacob Toledano
                    1. Raphael Toledano (1892–1971)
                3. Judah Toledano
                  1. Jacob Moses Toledano (1880-1960)
                4. Samuel Toledano
                  1. Abraham Toledano
                    1. Baruch Toledano
              2. Salomon Toledan (1770-1840)
            2. Judah Toledano
            3. Rabbi Moses Toledano (died 1778), rabbi in Meknes.
          3. Rabbi Baruch TOLEDANO (d. 1712)
          4. Rabbi Aaron TOLEDANO (died 1785).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Letter by R. Jacob Moshe Toledano ( English ) In: virtualjudaica.com . Virtual Judaica. April 22, 2011. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 18, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.virtualjudaica.com
  2. ↑ http://www.loebtree.com/tolm.html#minister
  3. ↑ Encyclopedia Judaica 22 Volume Set (pp. 1197–1198).
  4. ^ Hok u-Mishpat (Law and Judgment, 1931).
  5. ↑ Shufrei de-Ya'acov of Rabbi Jacob BERDUGO.
  6. ↑ Meginnei Shelomo on Raschi's Commentary on the Torah
personal data
SURNAME Toledano, Ja'akov Moshe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Toledano, Ya'akov Moshe (different spelling); יעקב משה טולידאנו (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli rabbi and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Tiberias , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1960
Place of death Israel