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1758 Let. 13 Mar. in Publ. Amer. Jewish Hist. Soc. (1920) 27 11 Wee Acknowledge our Selves Indebted to you for your fav^r. & Deligence in waiting on the Gent^m of the Mahamad with our Letter.

1783 Minutes 23 Dec. in Jrnl. Council of Censors (1784) 20 A memorial of Rabbi Gershom Seixas, of the Synagogue of the Jews at Philadelphia, Simon Nathan, their Parnass, or President, Asher Myers, Bernard Gratz and Haym Salomon, the Mahamad, or Associates of their Council,..was read, and Ordered to lie on the table.

1831 Ascamot, or Laws & Regulations Jewish Congregation v. 37 The institution of the Mahamad in this congregation is very ancient... The Mahamad..is composed of the four Parnassim and a Gabay, elected annually.

1893 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto (ed. 3) i. 8 The blue-blooded Dons, ‘the gentlemen of the Mahamad’, who ruffled it with swords and knee-breeches in the best Christian Society.

1904 Jewish Encycl. VIII. 259 The mahamad exercised over the members of the congregation a despotic control which degenerated into a sort of police supervision.

1923 Public Opinion 17 Aug. 161/1 The gentlemen of the Mahamad had sent a call to members of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation of London to assemble at their ancient burial-ground in Mile-end Road.

1944 New Judaea May 125/2 The Sephardim were to learn that..the Haham..would brook no trespass by the Mahamad.

1971 Encycl. Judaica XI. 637 Ma'amad or Mahamad, council of elders in a Sephardi community or congregation in the West after the expulsion from Spain... One of the characteristic features of ma'amad policy was that on completion of its term of office the maʽamad itself appointed its successors.

2010 W. Vink Creole Jews i. iv. 76 Going by the number of conflicts documented in the archives, it seems that Surinamese Jews continuously negotiated and challenged the position of their Mahamad.