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Or 17043
- Record Id:
- 032-004290924
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004290924
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100154999296.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 17043
- Title:
- Notebook containing: [1] financial accounts of charities & communal institutions related to Baghdad's Great Synagogue; and [2] drafts of Ecclesiastes Commentary.
- Scope & Content:
- 1r - 6r: accounts for the outer Great Synagogue, year 5664 (= 1904).
7r: Accounts (related to above?).
9r - 10v: Donations by members of the community to the Great Synagogue, month of Iyyar, 5664 (= Spring 1904).
11r - 12r (continuation of above): Accounts: building, upkeep, wages.
14r - 33v: Ecclesiastes commentary according to the plain sense, Version 1: running commentary from beginning to end of the book, folios 14r - 31r; addenda (including a section on the 'times' of Ecclesiastes ch. 3, adapted from Rabbi Sassoon Mordechai Moshe's 'Tehilah Le-David' on Psalm 145), folios 31v - 33v.
34r - 63r: Ecclesiastes commentary according to the plain sense, Version 2.
63v: List of Jewish books, pages, the name Moshe(?) Dangoor, and the date 25 Tishrr 5683(?) (= 17 October 1922?).
64v - 65v: Fundraising accounting of Hakham Rabbi Joseph [Hayyim] Shrem (שרים), messenger of the Rabbis of Jerusalem.67b: account, wages, Tuesday, 22 Iyyar 5687 (= 24 May 1927).
68v: Accounts.
69v: Accounts.
91v: Accounts.
92v: Accounts of Hakham Joseph Shrem (שרים) (see above folios 64v - 65v), Tevet 5686 (= winter 1925/6).
93v: Accounts, 1928.
94v: Receipts, donations(?) to the Great Synagogue.
95r-v: Communal accounts.
96v - 97r: Accounts payable, to collect from the household of David Sassoon, via Mrs Farha Suliman, 9 Ḥeshṿan 5685 = 6 Nov, 1924.
97v: New Year 5685 = 1924/5; Accounts payable, from Jacob צראף.
98v: Accountings for electricity, received, Siṿan 5684 = Spring/Summer 1924; Accounts.
99r: Receipt from Rangoon (including item with date 5 Elul 5684 = 4 September 1924).
99v: Fundraising accountings for Hakham Jacob Hai Labaton, Messenger for the Rabbis of Tiberias, New Moon of Tammuz 5683 = June 1923.
100v - 102r: Accounts, House of Study of Hakham Samson; Monday, 22 Elul 5683 = 3 September 1923.
102v - 104r: Accounts, refurbishment of the Great Synagogue, from 9 Kisleṿ 5683 = 29 November 1922.
104v: Accounts of the community, 5683 = 1922/3.
105r: Donations to the outer synagogue of the above-mentioned.
106v: Donations, year 5682 = 1921/2.
107v: Donations, House of Study, Hakham Shimon (including dates: Tuesday, 21 Ḥeshṿan 5681 = 2 November 1920; 28 Siṿan 5681 = 4 July 1921).
108v: Account, Sunday 16 Ḥeshṿan 5687 = 24 October 1926.
109v: Great Synagogue, accountings for the year 5687 = 1926/7.
110v: Account (including date New Moon of Siṿan 5681 = 7 June 1921).
111v: Rupees from Hakham Joseph Shrem (see above).
112v - 113r: Rupees from Hakham Jacob (see above), 17 Iyyar 5680 = 5 May 1920; Accounts for the Great Synagogue, 5680 and 5681 = 1919/20 and 1920/1.
113v - 114r: Accounts for the Great Synagogue, Elul 5681 = 1921.
114v - 115r: Accounts for the outer(?) synagogue (includes date Monday, 9 Kisleṿ 5680 = 1 December 1919).115b - 116b: Accounts, work/wages for the outer synagogue of the Great Synagogue.
117r: Communal accounts, year 5678 = 1917/8.
117v - 118r: Receipt of monies, Study House of Hakham Samson.
118v - 119r: Accounts, Great Synagogue, New Moon of Iyyar 5674 = 1914.
119v - 120r: (Continuation of previous item?; includes dates 3 Ḥeshṿan 5675 = 23 October 1914; 25 Siṿan 5676 = 26 June 1916).
120v - 121r: Accounts, Great Synagogue, year 5673 = 1912/3.
122v: Accounts (Mentions year 5670 = 1909/10).
123r: (Continuation of previous item?; includes date 15 Adar I 5670 = 24 February 1910).
123v - 128r: Accounts, restoration of the women's section of the Great Synagogue, from Sunday, 11 Adar I 5670 = 20 February 1910.
128v - 129r: Communal accounts, including inspection of slaughter knives and kosher slaughter of fowl, 5670 = 1909/10.
129v - 130r: (Continuation of previous item?): Accounts, Great Synagogue.
130v - 132r: Accounts, including inspection of slaughter knives and kosher slaughter of fowl, from the month of Tishre 5666 = 1906.
132v - 133r: Responsum on whether it is permissible to open and handle an umbrella / parasol (Judeo-Arabic: שמסיי) on the Sabbath.
133v - 134r: Training (or: Trainee) kosher slaughterers, Tammuz 5669 - Elul 5671 = 1909 - 1911.
134v, top: Declaration that Mr X and his heirs have no financial claims against his wife; and that she has been feeding and sustaining him for these many years.
134v, bottom - 135r: Training (or: Trainee) kosher slaughterers, including tuition fee or scholarship, ordination to slaughter, from Tishri 5672 - Iyyar 5673 = 1911 - 1913.
135v - 137v: Poem that Hakham Ezra Dangoor composed upon the repair of the Great Synagogue in 5664 = 1903/4, recited communally. Including drafts and relevant information.
End.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- The Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor Archive
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004290924
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004290924
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 notebook, with 137 folios
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic - Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1904
- End Date:
- 1930
- Date Range:
- 1904 - 1930
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Baghdad, Iraq
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Soft red leather cover, yellowing acidic paper; Outer dimensions, 180 mm x 120 mm; writing surface varies; black and other colour ink, and pencil.
- Custodial History:
- Dangoor Family
- Source of Acquisition:
- Donated by Dangoor Family (heirs of the author)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Dangoor, Ezra Reuben, Ḥakham Bashi = Chief Rabbi, 1848-1930
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