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- noun Plural form of
exilarch .
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Examples
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It was initiated in eighth-century Babylonia, and medieval Jewish and Arab sources link its origins with a member of the family of Jewish exilarchs, Anan ben David.
Karaite Women. 2009
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It would be fruitless to document the charges and countercharges, the bureaucratic indecision, the misunderstandings and misinterpretations, the struggle between the exilarchs and the internal émigrés, the ethology of the faculty moderates fluttering in response to changing signals from administration, from students, and again from the administration, the sudden shocking revelations of character, the sickening pull of self-interest.
A Special Supplement: The Old School at The New School Diamond, Stanley 1970
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But I have found that Isabella was descended from a very important bloodline of Jewish exilarchs.
henrymakow.com 2008
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