ABSTRACT
Chacham Tsvi Hirsch Ashkenazi (1660–1718), one of the most prominent European rabbis of his day, was received with many honours in 1710 and appointed chief rabbi of the High German congregation in Amsterdam. He was immediately given an unusually generous salary. He had lived, studied and worked in several European cities, and adopted the Sephardi title chacham after completing his studies at the yeshivas in Salonica and Belgrade. He had also been chief rabbi of the Sephardi congregation of Sarajevo.
