{"id":70,"date":"2024-09-05T12:11:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T12:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassuto.nl\/c\/?page_id=70"},"modified":"2024-09-05T12:12:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T12:12:15","slug":"judah-cassuto","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cassuto.nl\/c\/known-cassutos\/judah-cassuto\/","title":{"rendered":"Judah Cassuto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Judah Cassuto<\/strong>&nbsp;(1808 &#8211; 1893)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hazan of the Portuguese-Jewish community of Hamburg; born in Amsterdam 1808; died at Hamburg March 10, 1893. In 1827 he was elected hazan of the Portuguese-Jewish community,<br>a post which he held until his death.&nbsp;<br>Cassuto was not only cantor, but also spiritual chief of the congregation, and was entitled to act as rabbi at the solemnization of marriages among its members. He was a very learned man, and possessed a thorough knowledge of many modern languages. His lay occupation was that of teacher and translator. In 1843 Cassuto was appointed sworn interpreter and translator to the city of Hamburg.&nbsp;<br>As a teacher he was active up to the hour of his death, which occurred suddenly. Until 1894, when a successor to Cassuto was chosen, the Portuguese congregation had no spiritual chief, marriages being solemnized by the rabbi of the German congregation.&nbsp;<br>(source:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishencyclopedia.com\/\">jewishencyclopedia.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judah Cassuto&nbsp;(1808 &#8211; 1893) Hazan of the Portuguese-Jewish community of Hamburg; born in Amsterdam 1808; died at Hamburg March 10, 1893. In 1827 he was elected hazan of the Portuguese-Jewish community,a post which he held until his death.&nbsp;Cassuto was not only cantor, but also spiritual chief of the congregation, and was entitled to act as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cassuto.nl\/c\/known-cassutos\/judah-cassuto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Lees verder <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Judah Cassuto<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":45,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassuto.nl\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassuto.nl\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassuto.nl\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassuto.nl\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassuto.nl\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cassuto.nl\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/cassuto.nl\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions\/71"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassuto.nl\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassuto.nl\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}