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parnas(s|pɑːˈnɑːs|
Pl. parnassim |pɑːnəˈsiːm|.
[Heb.]
The lay head of a Jewish synagogue congregation.
1831[see Mahamad]. 1892I. Zangwill Childr. Ghetto I. 97 Michael Birnbaum was a great man in the little local synagogue... He had been successively Gabbai and Parnass, or treasurer and president. 1907― Ghetto Comedies 76 The Great Synagogue..struck a note of modern English gaiety,..looking towards the box of the Parnass and Gabbai, she saw it was occupied by officers with gold sashes. Ibid. 122 The Parnass proffered his presidential hand in pious congratulation. 1932C. Roth Hist. Marranos 247 The community boasted a model organisation. The power of the Parnasim, the elected Wardens, was autocratic, as offenders like Benedict Spinoza or Uriel Acosta learned to their cost. 1949Spectator 4 Nov. 595/2 The Parnas Presidente, the President of the Wardens of the Synagogue. 1962B. Abrahams tr. Life Glückel of Hameln ii. 18 My father has been parnass for many years. [Note] In Glückel's time the office of parnass (president or warden [of the synagogue]) was a monthly one. 1967D. T. Kauffman Dict. Relig. Terms 346/1 Parnas steward, lay president of a synagogue congregation. |