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Or 17082

Record Id:

032-004377370

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-004377370

MDARK:

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ISAD(G)

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 associated with Ḳodesh la-kabiri / קודש לכבירי = ‘The Great Sanctuary’ (synagogue), which seems to have functioned as an overall communal centre supporting many communal needs and functionaries, and which was dear to HED. However, in at least one instance [MS Or 17082 (25)] the synagogue is mentioned distinctly from Ḳodesh la-kabiri. Within Ḳodesh la-kabiri, a number of these items are for the finances of the ladies’ section; and there is an inventory of the synagogue's Torah scrolls and their accoutrements. Other causes, too, are represented: interest-free loans; Hakham Rabbi Joseph Hayyim Shrem’s collection on behalf of the rabbis of Jerusalem; and the rabbinic academy Bet Zilkha. Finally, a number of these items are unidentified.

Text: Judeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Numerals: Arabic with some Hebrew alphanumeric. Many items were found with HED’s writings on the Book of Ecclesiastes. Also, many of HED's notebooks with other writings contain, inter alia, financial records related to the ones preserved here.

Or 17082 (1): Folio 1: Inventory of sacred items in the Great Synagogue of Baghdad. Tishri 5676 [Anno Mundi = autumn 1915 CE]: Torah scrolls including their sources / donors; various accouterments for the Torah scrolls, such as cases, silver crowns, curtains for the ark, etc. Folio 2: Accounts for income on behalf of various communal functionaries, and list of donors.

Or 17082 (2): Note of debt: interest free loan of 70 rupees given by HED to Abraham Ezra Abraham Kodada from the city DYYR, to be repaid, when Abraham reached Abu Sahar, by cheque, through the agency of the Gaon Rabbi Sason Saul Mordekhai Hayyim. Date: 17 Menahem Av 5679 Anno Mundi [= 13 August 1919 CE]. Stamp seems to read, in part ‘… who trusts in God …’, and it may be the stamp of an interest-free loan society.

Or 17082 (3): Unidentified calculations.

Or 17082 (4): Two rows of calculations, running in opposite directions on the page.

Or 17082 (5): Calculations for the poor and for the Great Synagogue.

Or 17082 (6): Accounting letter sent to ‘The light of our eyes, the perfect sage, Sage Rabbi Isaac Abraham, may the Lord protect him’ (= Hakham Isaac Mejaled, 1835 – 1920?).

Or 17082 (7): Unidentified calculations.

Or 17082 (8): Expenses, Great Synagogue, from Sunday, beginning of the month of Iyyar, 30 Nisan, 5674 [Anno Mundi = 26 April 1914 CE].

Or 17082 (9): Unidentified calculations.

Or 17082 (10): Calculations for various communal institutions(?).

Or 17082 (11): Unidentified calculations.

Or 17082 (12): Unidentified calculations.

Or 17082 (13): Expenses, ladies' section of the Great Synagogue, from Sunday, 11 Adar I, 5670 [Anno Mundi = 20 February 1910 CE].

Or 17082 (14): Account of Hakham Rabbi Joseph Hayyim Shrem / רי”ח שרים [messenger of the Rabbis of Jerusalem].

Or 17082 (15): Recto: donations, including one by Mrs Farha [Sassoon?]; verso: unidentified calculations.

Or 17082 (16): List of names accompanied by numbers. [May have been part of single sheet with MS Or 17082 (17).]

Or 17082 (17): List of names accompanied by numbers. [May have been part of single sheet with MS Or 17082 (16).]

Or 17082 (18): On the verso of a paper – possibly part of an envelope – addressed ‘to the light of our eyes, the honourable and glorious sage Ezra Reuben Dangoor’: Expenses associated with the Great Synagogue, eve of Rosh Hashanah, eve of Kippur.

Or 17082 (19): On the inside and back of an opened envelope, addressed to HED with many honorifics: accounts for the ladies’ section [of the Great Synagogue].

Or 17082 (20): Expenses for work carried out at Bet Zilkha (the rabbinic academy), Monday, 16 Siṿan 5682 [Anno Mundi = 12 June 1922 CE].

Or 17082 (21): Debts, the Great Synagogue.

Or 17082 (22): Bottom quadrant of sheet of paper with financial calculations.

Or 17082 (23): Unidentified calculations.

Or 17082 (24): Expenses associated with the ladies’ section [of the Great Synagogue], Tuesday, 16 Elul 5670 [Anno Mundi = 20 September 1910 CE].

Or 17082 (25): Debts received(?), the Great Synagogue; expenses for Ḳodesh la-kabiri, year 5685 [Anno Mundi = 1934/5 CE]. [The distinction between the Great Synagogue and Ḳodesh la-kabiri is unclear.]

Or 17082 (26): Unidentified calculations (on the back of a piece of a wedding invitation).

[End]

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

The Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor Archive

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-004377370

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-004377370

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

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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Digitised Content:

Languages:

Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic

Scripts:

Hebrew

Start Date:

1860

End Date:

1930

Date Range:

1860-1930

Era:

Place of Origin:

Baghdad, Iraq

Access:

Unavailable as awaiting conservation

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Physical Characteristics:

Or 17082 (1): Black ink on two sheets of paper: folio 1: approximately 268 mm x 169 mm; folio 2: approximately 255 mm x 203 mm.

Or 17082 (2): Black ink on single sheet of yellowed, acidic paper, approximately 210 mm x 130 mm, cracked on the centre horizontal fold.

Or 17082 (3): Pencil and black ink on single sheet of paper, approximately 170 mm x 122 mm.

Or 17082 (4): Pencil on single sheet of yellowing, acidic paper, approximately 261 mm x 208 mm. Watermark.

Or 17082 (5): Purple ink on single sheet of paper, 134 mm x 107 mm.

Or 17082 (6): Black ink on single sheet of paper, approximately 271 mm x 213 mm.

Or 17082 (7): Pencil on single sheet of yellowing, acidic paper, approximately 203 mm x 86 mm.

Or 17082 (8): Brown ink on single piece from a larger sheet of paper, approximately 211 mm x 137 mm.

Or 17082 (9): Pencil on single sheet of paper, approximately 268 mm x 204 mm.

Or 17082 (10): Purple and black ink and pencil on single sheet of brittle paper, approximately 414 mm x 266 mm.

Or 17082 (11): Pencil on single sheet of paper, approximately 190 mm x 113 mm.

Or 17082 (12): Pencil on single sheet of paper, approximately 111 mm x 102 mm.

Or 17082 (13): Black – grey ink on 3 sheets of paper: [1] approximately 270 mm x 208 mm; [2] approximately 270 mm x 210 mm; and [3] approximately 244 mm x 125 mm.

Or 17082 (14): Brown ink on single sheet of paper, approximately 205 mm x 99 mm.

Or 17082 (15): Black ink and pencil on single sheet of paper, approximately 206 mm x 127 mm.

Or 17082 (16): Brown ink on single sheet of paper, approximately 228 mm x 92 mm.

Or 17082 (17): Brown ink on single sheet of paper, approximately 228 mm x 91 mm.

Or 17082 (18): Blue and black ink and pencil on single sheet of thin light-blue paper, approximately 140 mm x 76 mm.

Or 17082 (19): Blue-purple and black-grey ink on single opened paper envelope, outside mottled light blue, inside cream with red, approximately 135 mm x 90 mm folded; but when opened approximately 271 mm x 90 mm.

Or 17082 (20): Black ink on single sheet of paper, approximately 141 mm x 55 mm.

Or 17082 (21): Black ink with pencil on single sheet of paper, approximately 212 mm x 161 mm.

Or 17082 (22): Fragment of sheet of paper, black ink, approximately 138 mm x 104 mm.

Or 17082 (23): Pencil on single sheet of paper, approximately 164 mm x 126 mm.

Or 17082 (24): Grey – black ink and pencil on paper, approximately 128 mm x 120 mm.

Or 17082 (25): Brown ink on single sheet of paper, approximately 141 mm x 111 mm.

Or 17082 (26): Pencil on the back of a piece of a wedding invitation in gilded type, approximately 204 mm x 135 mm.

[End]

Custodial History:

Dangoor Family

Source of Acquisition:

Dangoor Family (heirs of the record keeper)

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)