David Asseo

Asseo was born in Istanbul, where he attended a religious school in Hasköy. In 1928 he received the Lodge D'Orient Béne Berith scholarship to the Rhodes yeshiva, where he studied for 6 years. He became fluent in Hebrew, French, Italian, Greek and Ladino, a language derived from Spanish spoken many of the Turkey's jewish population. After his studies he returned to Istanbul and became a Hebrew Teacher at the Jewish High School in Istanbul. From 1933-1936 he completed his military service. == Career ==

In 1936 he became a member of the Bet Din, and later became the secretary as well as the private secretary to Chief Rabbi Rafael Saban, in the rabbinical court.1955 Rabbi Asseo became headmaster and co-founder of an academy of Jewish learning in Haskoy. ==References==