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291. Or 17076

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17076
Title:
Paean to the Torah and its light
Scope & Content:
21-stanza rhymed paean to the Torah and its light, preceded by citations from classical Rabbinic texts, highlighting the performance of acts of lovingkindness, with a caption noting that the source (of the paean? of the paean prefaced by these introductory items?) is from a work entitled Tsedaḳa...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew
Date Range:
1868-1920
Extent:
One softbound quire containing six folios.

292. Or 17077

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17077
Title:
Religious poems in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Turkish - small format
Scope & Content:
Small-format notebook, containing mostly religious Jewish poems, in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Turkish. Complied by Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor (HED). May be a draft in preparation for printing. If so, it would have been scribed no earlier than 1904, when HED opened his press. Contains a s...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
1904-1909
Extent:
22 folios plus cover, making a single quire

293. Or 17078

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17078
Title:
Jewish Religious Poems in Hebrew
Scope & Content:
64 Jewish Religious Poems in Hebrew, transcribed and annotated by Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor (HED). For many of these entries, he provides ancillary information – melody to which the poem / song should be recited / sung, acrostic [formed by the initial letters of the stichs or stanzas], name of ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
1924-1930
Extent:
Upside down and backward school exercise book of 14 folios, last folio removed with just the stub remaining and thus not included in the numeration, with an added hand-sewn quire of 9 folios of the same style, for a total of 22 folios. All folios encased in the grey paper cover of the school exercise book printed for the year 1925-26. Written on the cover, on the line where the school's name is to be filled in, is the name of a Baghdadi Jewish school for children, راحيل شحمون = Rachel Shahmoun.

294. Or 17079

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17079
Title:
Commentary on Solomon Ibn Gabirol's 'Azharot' (poetic list of the Torah's Commandments)
Scope & Content:
The medieval Iberian Jewish rabbi, philosopher, and poet Solomon Ibn Gabirol composed his version of the 'Azharot' / אזהרות, a poetic listing of the Torah's commandments. The Azharot were often recited as part of the liturgy of Shavu'ot / שבעות, 'the Feast of Weeks'. This manuscript contains a c...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Hebrew
Date Range:
1890-1930
Extent:
1 stock book (for mercandise), bound by staples, used back-to-front, with 1 cover plus 11 folios.

295. Or 17080

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17080
Title:
Poems, belles-lettres, and wise sayings: loose sheets
Scope & Content:
Poems, belles-lettres, and wise sayings from the archive of Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor (HED); loose sheets; 12 items. Or 17080 (1). Paean to Moses, beginning, ‘Moses spoke from afar …’ / משה ידבר ממרחקים …. Source unidentified. Compare with handwriting, layout, and literary style of Or 17076, ‘...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
1850-1930
Extent:
13 separate items, totaling 14 sheets of paper: Or 17080 (10) contains 2 folios. Other items contain 1 folio each.

296. Or 17081

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17081
Title:
The Ruination of Hakham Dangoor’s Rangoon Rabbinate
Scope & Content:
Two documents relevant to the ruination of Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor's Rangoon Rabinate. The back of folio 1 has Jewish calendar calculations for portions of the year 5657 Anno Mundi (1897 CE) Background: Beginning in Shevat 5654 Anno Mundi = January 1894, Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor served a ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew
Date Range:
1896-1906
Extent:
2 separate sheets of paper

297. Or 17082

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17082
Title:
Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor’s records of communal finances
Scope & Content:
Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor (HED) was involved with the administration of various charities, including those associated with Baghdad's Great Synagogue, the support of the needy, and collections by emissaries of various Jewish communities abroad. Many of the financial records preserved here are as...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
1860-1930
Extent:

26 separate units:

Or 17082 (1): 2 folios.

Or 17082 (2): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (3): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (4): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (5): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (6): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (7): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (8): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (9): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (10): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (11): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (12): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (13): 3 folios.

Or 17082 (14): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (15): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (16): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (17): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (18): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (19): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (20): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (21): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (22): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (23): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (24): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (25): 1 folio.

Or 17082 (26): 1 folio.

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298. Or 17083

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17083
Title:
Esoterica: numerology; allusions; incantations
Scope & Content:
One sheet with numerology on the Hebrew word for 'truth', emet / אמת. Two sheets with allusions and incantations. It is probable that all were scribed by the hand of Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor. Or 17083 (1): Numerology (gematria / גימטריה): The three Hebrew consonants alef-mem-taṿ / אמת spel...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew
Date Range:
1860-1930
Extent:
2 separate items:Or 17083 (1): 1 folio.

Or 17083 (2): 2 folios.

299. Or 17084

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17084
Title:
Correspondence, Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor
Scope & Content:
18 separate pieces of correspondence to or from Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor (HED) Or 17084 (1). From Yaakov Meir, Chief Rabbi of Palestine to HED, dated 19(?) Kislev 5685 (= 16 DEC 1924). Language: Hebrew. Or 17084 (2). From [Rabbi] David Ḥay Meir Yosef Nisim, Baghdad / הצעיר דוד חי מאיר יוסף נ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
1881-1929
Extent:
18 separate items of correspondence:

Or 17084 (1): 1 calling card and 1 envelope.

Or 17084 (2): 1 folio.

Or 17084 (3): 1 folio.

Or 17084 (4): 1 folio.

Or 17084 (5): 1 folio.

Or 17084 (6): 1 folio.

Or 17084 (7): 1 folio.

Or 17084 (8): 1 folio.

Or 17084 (9): 1 folio.

Or 17084 (10): 1 folio.

Or 17084 (11): 1 folio.

Or 17084 (12): 1 folio.

Or 17084 (13): 1 folio.

Or 17084 (14): 1 folio.

Or 17084 (15): 1 folio.

Or 17084 (16): 1 folio.

Or 17084 (17): 1 folio.

Or 17084 (18): 2 folios.

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300. Or 17085

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17085
Title:
Torah insights, sermons, and alphabetical indices of Talmudic treatment of various topics: small note pad
Scope & Content:
One of Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor's compilations, including Torah insights, sermons, and alphabetical indices of Talmudic treatment of various topics: Folio 1r: [1] End of a discussion determining the ages of the family members of Jacob, the biblical patriarch; [2] overcoming the evil inclinatio...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Aramaic and Hebrew
Date Range:
1860-1930
Extent:
1 small perforated tear-off note pad, 81 folios extant

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