ABSTRACT
Rabbi Nahum was a very important and immensely educated rabbinic authority of Sephardic Jewry in the twentieth century. Moreover, during his lifetime, he held very important positions in very turbulent times. Between 1909 and 1920 (the period that culminated with the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War), he held the office of Chief Rabbi of the Ottoman Empire (Hakham Bashi). Soon afterwards, in 1925, he became the Chief Rabbi of Egypt and remained in that position until his death – even in the period of great Jewish– Arab tensions after the creation of Israel in 1948.
