Hakham

She helped the Hakham (clergyman) of the Sephardic synagogue with his English sermons, and was a staunch member of the Anglo-Jewish Association, a literary association almost exclusively open to Jewish men.

Anna Maria Goldsmid. 2009

One of the customs in Jamaica, shared with other Caribbean communities except Surinam, is the evening Sabbath service where the Hakham calls a woman to the teva to light the candles and recite a blessing.

Caribbean Islands and the Guianas. 2009

Very famous was the store owned by Hana de Piza, wife of the chief Hakham of the Virgin Islands (Lindo Guterman, 5).

Caribbean Islands and the Guianas. 2009

In 1936 she became the literary editor of the weekly, extending her reach to lyric poems for children, nonsense rhymes and popular comics that marked an innovation in Hebrew children’s literature (“Uri Muri,” 1937; “Uri Kaduri,” 1938; “He-Hamor he-Hakham,” 1940); “Efroah Bilbulmoah,” 1942; “Mar Guzmai ha-Badai,” 1946; and others).

Children's Literature in Hebrew. 2009