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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.