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chazzan|xəˈzɑːn|
Also, cazan, chazan, hazan, hazzan, etc.
[Heb. ḥazzān superintendent of prayer meetings, sexton, cantor, prob. f. Assyrian hazannu overseer or governor.]
A cantor or precentor in a Jewish synagogue.
1650E. Chilmead tr. L. Modena's Hist. Rites, Customes of Jews x. 31 There is One, that sings out the Prayers lowder than the rest, whom they call Cazan;..These, as well as the Cazan, as the Shamas, have stipends allowed them. 1675L. Addison Present State of Jews xi. 91 To every Synagogue there belongs six Officers... The sixth is the Chesan (or Præcentor). a1763‘G. Psalmanazar’ Memoirs (1764) 270 Conversing with the Jews themselves, going to their synagogues, and hearing the Scriptures read by their chazans or ministers. 1891J. E. H. Thomson Bks. which influenced Our Lord 5 The synagogue school, taught by the old hazzan. 1892Zangwill Childr. Ghetto I. 7 Prayers were shouted rapidly by the congregation, and elaborately sung by the Chazan. 1905Jewish Encycl. XI. 19/1 The senior hazzan of the Bayswater Synagogue. 1957L. P. Gartner Jewish Immigrant (1960) vii. 189 The observant immigrant in the East End..would..welcome the musical ministrations of a visiting hazan (cantor). |