JACOB BEN ẒEMAḤ BEN NISSIM
- JACOB BEN ẒEMAḤ BEN NISSIM
- JACOB BEN ẒEMAḤ BEN NISSIM (d. 1847), one of the wealthiest
men of his time in the East. Born in Baghdad, he moved in about 1775 to
India where he succeeded in amassing great wealth. Returning to Baghdad
in 1831, he spent large sums on charitable purposes in various
countries. Many of the Jewish religious institutions established in
Baghdad in the first half of the
19th century were financed by his contributions. After his
death his heirs struggled bitterly among themselves over the
distribution of his estate. In 1855 a synagogue, Midrash Ya'akov
Ẓemaḥ, was constructed in his memory in Baghdad.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
A. Ben-Jacob, Yehudei Bavel (1965), 140–1; D.S. Sassoon,
History of the Jews in Baghdad (1949), 137.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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