Preciado Bakish



Preciado Bakish (Hebrew: פרסיאדו בקיש ) was a Sephardic Jewish rabbi active in Bulgaria. He served as the Chief Rabbi of Bulgaria and was a prominent member of the Zionist Movement.

Biographical elements
Born in 1828 at Sofia (Bulgaria) to a Sephardic Jewish family. He died in Jerusalem at the age of 82 (1910). He was named Chief Rabbi of Bulgaria (1885–1889; 1895–1898 or 1900) and Av Beit Din (Chairman of the Rabbinical Court) He participated in the First Zionist Congress held on 29, 30 and 31 August 1897 to Basel (Switzerland) along with three other delegates from Bulgaria (Zvi Belkovsky, Karl Herbst, Yehoshua Kalef) and some 200 other members from around the world. These activities have created difficulties and Rabbi Preciado Bakish was not maintained in his functions as Chief Rabbi of Bulgaria after 1900. A photograph of Rabbi Bakish was published on a genealogy website