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Mahamad|ˈmɑːhəmɑːd|
Also Ma‘amad and with small initial.
[mod. Heb. ma‘amad.]
The body of trustees ruling a Sephardic synagogue; freq. in phr. gentlemen of the Mahamad. Also attrib.
1831Ascamot, or Laws & Regulations Jewish Congregation v. 37 The institution of the Mahamad in this congregation is very ancient... The Mahamad..is composed of the four Parnassim and a Gabay, elected annually. 1893I. Zangwill Childr. Ghetto (ed. 3) i. 8 The blue-blooded Dons, ‘the gentlemen of the Mahamad’, who ruffled it with swords and knee-breeches in the best Christian Society. 1904Jewish Encycl. VIII. 259 The mahamad exercised over the members of the congregation a despotic control which degenerated into a sort of police supervision. 1923Public Opinion 17 Aug. 161/1 The gentlemen of the Mahamad had sent a call to members of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation of London to assemble at their ancient burial-ground in Mile-end Road. 1944New Judaea May 125/2 The Sephardim were to learn that..the Haham..would brook no trespass by the Mahamad. 1971Encycl. Judaica XI. 638/1 One of the characteristic features of ma‘amad policy was that on completion of its term of office the ma‘amad itself appointed its successors. |