Hasdai ben Hezekiah
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Hasdai ben Hezekiah was the son of Hezekiah ben Solomon
and thus was the ninth Karaite exilarch
of the line of Anan ben David
. He lived in Iraq
during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. He was the father of Solomon ben Hasdai
.
Hezekiah ben Solomon
Hezekiah ben Solomon was the son of Solomon ben David and thus was the eighth Karaite exilarch of the line of Anan ben David. He lived in Iraq during the eleventh century. He was the father of Hasdai ben Hezekiah....
and thus was the ninth Karaite exilarch
Exilarch
Exilarch refers to the leaders of the Diaspora Jewish community in Babylon following the deportation of King Jeconiah and his court into Babylonian exile after the first fall of Jerusalem in 597 BCE and augmented after the further deportations following the destruction...
of the line of Anan ben David
Anan ben David
Anan Ben David is widely considered to be a major founder of the Karaite movement of Judaism. His followers were called Ananites and, like modern Karaites, do not believe the Rabbinic Jewish oral law to be divinely inspired...
. He lived in Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. He was the father of Solomon ben Hasdai
Solomon ben Hasdai
Solomon ben Hasdai was the son of Hasdai ben Hezekiah. He was the tenth Karaite exilarch of the house of Anan ben David, and the last of Anan's descendants to be regarded by the Karaites as their nasi. During his reign many Karaite communities were destroyed by the Seljuks and Karaism as a rival to...
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