Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The chief of the Babylonian Jews after the destruction of the temple and until the tenth century a. d. The exilarch exercised great authority not only over the Jews of Babylonia, but in all other countries, levying taxes and exercising other similar powers.
Wiktionary
- n. The leader of the Jews of the Babylonian exile.
- n. The term applied by Greeks to the head of a community of Jews in the diaspora.
- n. A grand rabbi.
Examples
“The exile readily becomes an exilarch, that is to say a sort of hereditary ruler in the place of exile, recapitulating the culture of the past so far as that is possible, while drawing strength from the mythos of persecution.”
“She is identified as the wife of Rabbi Nahman, an oft-cited sage who flourished circa 250 c.e. It is possible that her father was an exilarch (BT Hullin 124a).”
“In periods of prosperity, the exilarch lived like a prince, though when the novel opens, Bostenay undergoes the indignity of paying tribute to the Turks.”
“By identifying Bostenay as the “exilarch” of his novel, Disraeli associates the action with the entire history of the Jewish diaspora, the title Resh Galuta, as an exilarch with hereditary ties to the House of David, dating back to the Second Temple era. 11”
“The seat of the _exilarch_ or _resh galutha_ was transferred from Pumbedita (Pumbeditha or Pombeditha) in Babylonia to”
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“Babylonian Talmudic schools were crowded with hearers, and had it not been for their internal dissension, religious (Karaites) and political (contests for the dignity of exilarch), the Jews of Babylon would have been as happy as they were renowned for their learning.”
“The exilarch and the head of the school of Sora, with his new name of”
“Mohammed Almuktafi revived the dignity of exilarch; in the Two”
“The exilarch, both in bearing and in mode of life, was a prince.”
“Omar's campaigns against Persia, this caliph granted them several privileges, among which may be mentioned the recognition of their exilarch Bostanaï (642).”
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