Chaim Bejeranu, the Chief Rabbi of Turkey, known as Haham Baschi, died here to-day at the age of 75.
The deceased was born in 1856 in Nicopole, Bulgaria. He was one of the students of Zachariah Halevi of Salonica. Besides being a student of the Bible and Talmud, he also devoted much of his time to the study of philosophy and Kaballah.
Rabbi Bejeranu was a famous linguist, having had a perfect mastery of ten languages. In his younger days he was appointed Haham Baschi of Adrianople, and during the war he became the Chief Rabbi of Constantinople.
The deceased was the owner of an honorary Order bestowed upon him by the Roumanian Government for a number of his works which he had written in the Roumanian language.
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