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Or 17064

Record Id:

032-004396170

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-004396170

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

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] 4027 years since the Flood [which occurred in the year] 1656 [Anno Mundi]. (Significantly, the identification of the year of the Flood is a matter of interpretive dispute.) The most recent item: [the year 5684 is] 15 years since the aeroplane. Added below, in the spidery script characteristic of HED's final years: [the year 5684 is] 45 years since the telephone [which was introduced in] 1877 [CE]. Only in the first and last cases does HED give the year, whether AM or CE, in which the event occurred.

Or 17064 (2). Side A: List of the Anno Mundi years for various events and the flourishing of various Talmudic sages, and associated calculations. E.g.: 3408, the beginning of the building of the Second Temple; 3416, its completion; 3413, Ezra went up [to the Land of Israel] from Babylonia; Men of the Great Assembly; 3445, Simeon the Just [last of the Men of the Great Assembly]; 3500, Yoḥanan the High Priest; 3766, Shamaya and Avtalion ... etc. A note at the bottom of the page seems to indicate that HED made these calculations in order to justify his chronology [see previous item, MS Or 17064 (1)] to his contemporary and friend Rabbi Joseph Hayyim Shrem / יוסף חיים שרים [see note to MS Or 17077, poem no. 1], as well as to Rabbi Fishman [presumably Rabbi Judah Leib ha-Kohen Fishman [surname later changed to Maimon], a founder of the religious Zionist movement Mizrachi, who visited Baghdad and was photographed there with a group including HED] and Rabbi פאנזיל [= Panigel?] and another party, ???? Saul. Side B: the number 1656 [the Anno Mundi year that HED gave for the Flood]; and calendar calculations.

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

The Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor Archive

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-004396170

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-004396170

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

2 loose sheets of paper

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic

Scripts:

Hebrew

Start Date:

1923

End Date:

1930

Date Range:

1923-1930

Era:

Access:

Unavailable as awaiting conservation

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Physical Characteristics:

Or 17064 (1): Black-brown ink on single sheet of paper, approximately 180 mm x 113 mm.

Or 17064 (2): Black-brown ink on single sheet of paper, approximately 203 mm x 132 mm.

Custodial History:

Dangoor Family

Source of Acquisition:

Dangoor Family (heirs of author)

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Dangoor, Ezra Reuben, Ḥakham Bashi = Chief Rabbi, 1848-1930

Related Archive Descriptions:

Or 17043
Or 17077
Or 17078