HALEVI, EZEKIEL EZRA BEN JOSHUA
- HALEVI, EZEKIEL EZRA BEN JOSHUA
- HALEVI, EZEKIEL EZRA BEN JOSHUA (1852–1942), one of the most
prominent scholars and poets of Iraqi Jewry in recent generations; born
in Baghdad and died in Jerusalem. In 1897 Halevi emigrated to Ereẓ
Israel and settled in Jerusalem. He earned his livelihood as a preacher;
he was also a communal worker, president of the committee of the Iraqi
community, and one of the founders of the yeshivah Shoshannim le-David.
Of the more than 10 books which he wrote, five were published, including
Arugat ha-Bosem (1905), on the aggadah;
Tehillah ve-Tiferet (1914), a commentary on the Book of
Psalms; and also his Simhat Yom Tov (c. 1934), which was a
commentary on the Passover Haggadah.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
A. Ben-Jacob, Yehudei Bavel (1965), 133, 194, 205; Tidhar, 11
(1961),
3843.
(Abraham Ben-Yaacob)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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