Born in Eski-Zagora,
Bulgaria, he studied in Salonika, Greece (then in the
Ottoman Empire), receiving a secular as well as a religious
education. In 1880 he moved to Ruse (Ruschuk), Bulgaria,
where he headed the local Jewish community. Later he moved
to Bucharest, Romania, as dayan and head of the Sephardi
school. Bejerano had close ties with Queen Elizabeth of
Romania and was an official government interpreter in
Semitic languages. In 1908 he was elected chief rabbi of
Adrianople (now Edirne, in Turkey) and from 1922 was Chief
Rabbi of Istanbul, Turkey.
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