Ezra Dangoor
Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor (1848–1930) was the Chief Rabbi of Baghdad from 1923 to 1926, and the founder of the first publishing company in Baghdad.
Ezra Dangoor | |
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Born | 1848 |
Died | 1930 |
Occupation | Rabbi |
Children | Eliahou Dangoor |
Relatives | Sir Naim Eliahou Dangoor (grandson) |
Early life
Ezra Sasson ben Reuven Dangoor was born in 1848 in Baghdad, Iraq. He was educated in Baghdad, where he studied under Rabbi Abdallah Somekh.
Career
Dangoor worked as a ritual slaughterer and ritual circumciser, before from 1880 to 1886 working as the scribe in charge of writing documents issued by the Baghdad's Bet Din.[1]
Dangoor was the Chief Rabbi of Rangoon, Burma from 1893 or 1894, but had to return to Baghdad in 1895 due to ill health.[1][2]
In 1904, Dangoor opened the first printing press in Baghdad, which printed Arabic textbooks as well as books in Hebrew.[3][4] Dangoor was the author of several books and commentaries on the Torah.[2]
Personal life
Dangoor had five children: Sion, Abdulla Joseph, Farha (who married Shaul Basri), Eliahou and Moshe.
Death and legacy
Dangoor died in 1930. He was the grandfather of Sir Naim Eliahou Dangoor (1914–2015) and the great-grandfather of the philanthropist David Dangoor.
References
- "Dangoor, Ezra Sasson ben Reuven". Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- Basri, Meer (June 2003). "Prominent Iraqi Jews of recent times". The Scribe (76). Retrieved 12 January 2016.
- Khabbaza, Albert (1 April 2010). The Last Tango in Baghdad. AuthorHouse. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-4490-8830-9. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- "Ecclesiastes with a new Judaeo-Arabic translation and two commentaries by the Late Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor Chief Rabbi of Baghdad". dangoor. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
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