Exilarch
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
[change | change source]Other websites
[change | change source]- 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
