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Definition of Hazzan
1. hazan [n HAZZANIM or HAZZANS] - See also: hazan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hazzan
Literary usage of Hazzan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education in Ancient Israel: From Earliest Times to 70 A.D. by Fletcher Harper Swift (1919)
"Kennedy asserts that the hazzan of the elementary schools was distinct from the
synagogue officer of the same title whose work consisted largely of menial ..."
2. Annual Convention by Central Conference of American Rabbis (1914)
"Consequently the mourner, who is considered the substitute for the hazzan.
should also stand. In some congregations only one of the mourners (according to ..."
3. Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis by Central Conference of American Rabbis (1914)
"But there is no doubt that the hazzan should always recite the Kaddish standing.
Consequently the mourner, who is considered the substitute for the hazzan, ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... Aram, hazzan, or hazzan ... the priest took up his station between the
hazzan (see above, I., ..."
5. The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science, Philosophy by Caroline Ticknor, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Richard Stockton (1901)
"It had a president, "elders," a hazzan, appointed reader or beadle, ... He entered
the synagogue, and rose to read; the hazzan handed him the book, ..."
6. American Jewish Year Book by American Jewish Committee, Jewish Publication Society of America (1908)
"... who invited the Jews to settle in the country. Three months later Rabbi hazzan
died, mourned by the Jews of his part of the world. ..."
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