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Language Judeo-Arabic Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1031. Or 17049

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17049
Title:
Birthdays and Anniversaries, several Dangoor family members
Scope & Content:
Birthday and Anniversary information given for several Dangoor family members in multiple calendars, including: Jewish; Gregorian?; Islamic; & Ottoman Fiscal. Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor: birthday and anniversary; Reuben Sion Dangoor: birthday and anniversary; Moshe Yauda Dangoor: birthday; El...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
1893 - 1930
Extent:
1 sheet of paper

1032. Or 17050

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17050
Title:
סדר הקפות לשמחת התורה
Scope & Content:
The Order of the Circumambulations (haḳafot) for the Festival of the Celebration of the Torah / Śimḥat Torah, by Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor (HED) The custom of carrying out seven joyous circumambulations on the Festival of the Celebration of the Torah (Śimḥat Torah) took shape in the circle of ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
1860-1930
Extent:
1 booklet, 13 folios

1033. Or 17051

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17051
Title:
Separate liturgical items for various occasions
Scope & Content:
Liturgical items for various occasions, composed, adapted, translated, or collected by Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor. Or 17051 (1). (Hebrew) A series of three penitential prayers. Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor (HED) adapted the first two and seems to have composed the third. His purpose was to elicit...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
1865-1930
Extent:
7 separate sheets

1034. Or 17061

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17061
Title:
Sermons, Essays, and Torah Thoughts, mid 5685 Anno Mundi
Scope & Content:
One of Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor's (HED’s) notebooks, containing [1] Sermons for various occasions, essays on Jewish themes and biblical and Rabbinic passages, Hebrew word studies, poems, remedies and protections, laws and customs, and Jewish data; [2] Financial records; and [3] Table of Conten...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
1925
Extent:
1 leatherbound notebook, 133 folios.

1035. Or 17063

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17063
Title:
Sermons and Jewish Concepts, recorded in Pigeon Service notebook
Scope & Content:
British Army WWI Pigeon Service Book. Used by Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor (HED) as a notebook to record sermons and other Jewish items on Rabbinic literature, theology, and biography. HED’s pagination seems to occasionally repeat numbers. Folios 1 – 8r: Sermons associated with the Scroll (Me...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
1917-1930
Extent:
43 folios. British Army World War I Pigeon Service pad, with a minority of onionskin pages and a majority of thick paper pages.

1036. Or 17064

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17064
Title:
Historical Timeline: Dating Jewish and world events and notable persons
Scope & Content:
Or 17064 (1). Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor's (HED's) dating of 67 world events back from the year 5684 Anno Mundi (= 1923/4 CE), including events of general and Jewish significance, and the birth of people of renown. For the first item, HED gives the corresponding Anno Mundi year: [the year 5684 is...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
1923-1930
Extent:
2 loose sheets of paper

1037. Or 17070

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 17070
Title:
Miscellany treating Hebrew linguistics, ethics, and approaches to Jewish issues
Scope & Content:
Miscellany treating Hebrew linguistics, ethics, and approaches to Jewish issues. Complied and scribed by Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor (HED). Direction 1 (opening the codex [right-to-left] oriented by what remains of the pagination pencilled onto the upper outside margin of each page): Inner cov...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
1900-1910
Extent:
One hardcover notebook: in which page numbers were written by hand; from which many pages were torn out; and many remaining pages of which are blank. 111 folios remain. Textual units begin from both ends of the book. Direction of foliation has followed the direction of the originally written-in page numbers.

1038. 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.

1039. 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

1040. 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.