NAHUM, AARON SASSON BEN ELIJAH
- NAHUM, AARON SASSON BEN ELIJAH
- NAHUM, AARON SASSON BEN ELIJAH (c. 1872–1962), educator and
communal worker in iraq . From 1920 he was chairman of the Zionist
Organization in Iraq; his Zionist work was done underground because of
Iraqi persecution of the Zionist movement. In 1920 he helped found a
Hebrew Literary Society in baghdad . He was the founder and, from
1924 to 1935, director of Pardes Yeladim, a school which fostered the
use of Hebrew. In 1935 he settled in Palestine, where he continued to
work as an educator. In 1920 he founded a Hebrew-Arab weekly in Baghdad,
Yeshurun, of which only five numbers appeared. Under the
pseudonym of "Ha-Moreh," he published a book of poems, Sefer Shirei
ha-Teḥiyyah, containing translations and original works (2 parts,
1925; part 3 in 1931). His poems express his longing for Zion. In
Palestine he also published a number of booklets, in which he appealed
for religious observance.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
H. Ben-Yoseph, in: Ba-Ma'arakhah, 2 (March 1963), 15; H.J.
Cohen, Ha-Pe'ilut ha-Ẓiyyonit be-Iraq (1969), passim.
(Abraham Ben-Yaacob)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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