chazan

Or chaz·zan

[khah-zahn, khah-zuhn]

noun

Hebrew.

plural

chazanim ,

plural

chazans .

1. hazan.

chazan

/ ˈhɑːzən, xaˈzan /

noun

1. a person who leads synagogue services, esp as a profession; cantor

Example Sentences

In 1957, actress Isabella Giori hopes to land a career-making role in a Hitchcock film; when her circumstances change and she winds up secluded in a tiny cottage in Carmel-on-the-Sea, a blacklisted emigre screenwriter named Léon Chazan saves her.

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“I think the big change would be the climate,” said Naomi Chazan, a liberal activist, scholar and former lawmaker from the Meretz party.

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Police asked anyone with information to contact Detective Chazan of the Clarkstown Detective Bureau at 845-639-5845.

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“We should never underestimate the ingenuity of Neanderthals,” Chazan said, “but that does not mean they were just like modern humans.”

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It was possible that certain Neanderthal groups “might have discovered that striking flint could light a fire,” said University of Toronto anthropologist Michael Chazan, who was not a part of this research.

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