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3521. Or 17071, updated

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17071, updated
Title:
Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor's extracts from works of others, mostly writings of the religious / rabbinic Haskalah
Scope & Content:
The content of this notebook is taken from the works of others, sometimes in a digested form, and largely reflects Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor’s (HED’s) attempt to promulgate a Judaism in which traditional praxis and faith are complemented by ethics and philosophical insight. As such, many of the...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew
Date Range:
1883-1930
Extent:
1 small book with 127 surviving folios.

3522. Or 17072

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17072
Title:
Collected insights on 'Adam', viz. the human
Scope & Content:
Contains a collection of themes and insights relevant to physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects being human. Some of the insights are separated by pencilled-in numbers in series, ranging from 20b to 34b. Scribe unknown.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew
Date Range:
1830-1930
Extent:
Home made booklet of 15 small folios bound at the bottom and held vertically.

3523. Or 17073

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17073
Title:
Sermons, Essays, Torah Thoughts, Word Studies, Ethical Tales - small notebook
Scope & Content:
One of Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor’s (HED’s) compilations of sermons, homilies, essays, Torah thoughts, word studies, ethical stories, etc., including some of his original writings, writings published by others, many in Jewish religious periodicals, and items heard from others (including Rabbi Yo...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew
Date Range:
1908-1930
Extent:
1 quire containing 97 surviving folios, consisting of a front cover [folio 1 (1)] followed by 96 consecutively numbered folios.

3524. Or 17074

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17074
Title:
לקוטים פרשנות
Scope & Content:
A collection of exegetical insights, going beyond the basic meaning of the texts into the realm of homiletics, on select passages from the Pentateuch, Esther, Lamentations, hafṭarot (= readings from the Prophets, chanted after the liturgical Pentateuchal readings), Psalms, and Ethics of the Fathe...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew
Date Range:
1860-1930
Extent:
1 hardback notebook containing 18 folios

3525. Or 17075

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17075
Title:
כויה תחת כויה
Scope & Content:
Hebrew language. The moralistic tale 'keṿiyah taḥat keṿiyah', by the the Hebrew and Yiddish writer Nahum Meir Schaikewitz (“Shomer”), who put the narration into the mouth of his fictional alter ego, Yudke Shmerkes. The title, taken from Exodus 21:25, means ‘burn for burn’, and indicates that ev...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
1880-1930
Extent:
Vertically opening paperback booklet; 20 folios.

3526. 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.

3527. 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

3528. 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.

3529. 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.

3530. 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.

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