Exilarch
leader of the Jewish community in Babylon during the era of the Parthians, Sassanids and Abbasids up until the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in 1258, with intermittent gaps
The exilarch[a] was the leader of the Jewish community in Persian Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) for most of the time from the Parthians era, Sassanid Empire, and the Abbasid Caliphate, until the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in 1258.
Footnotes
changeOther websites
change- Iranian Encyclopedia on Exilarchs under Arab rule
- Jewish Virtual Library- Exilarch
- Early Babylonian Exilarchate- GOTHOD Archived 2021-07-30 at the Wayback Machine
- Revolutionary article by professor M. Gintzler of Yeshivat Chevron: "שלשלת ראשי גולת בבל מחורבן בית ראשון ועד המאה ה־14" in Mekhilta IV Sep 2022 https://www.academia.edu/89141205 Archived 2021-07-30 at the Wayback Machine Hebrew University of Jerusalem
