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'''Ezekiel Judah,''' or '''Yehezkel Yehuda''' or '''Yahuda''' or '''Ezekiel Judah Jacob Sliman''' (1800 – 22 April 1860) was a Jewish communal leader, indigo, muslin and silk trader, philanthropist and talmudist of Baghdad, who migrated to India, leading the Baghdadi Jewish community of Kolkata in his lifetime and establishing the city’s first synagogues.▼
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{{Short description|Baghdadi-Jewish businessman (1800–1860)}}
▲'''Ezekiel Judah
==Origins==
The Ma’tuk family of Baghdad were descended from Rabbi Ma’tuk, the last Nasi or Prince of the Jewish community of [[Anah]], on the [[Euphrates]]
The
Despite this, origins in Anah
The
== Biography ==
Ezekiel Judah, born in 1799 or 1800, is referred to by historians or on monuments in the Calcutta synagogues he erected alternately as Ezekiel Judah, Yehezkel Yehuda or Yahuda, or Ezekiel Judah Jacob Sliman or Sulliman. These three different names
However, Iraqi Jewish historians cite the Ma’tuk clan, descended from Rabbi Ma’tuk of Anah, as having adopted his name as
According to the historian of Iraqi Jewry, Abraham Ben-Jacob,
Ezekiel Judah married twice. His first wife was Rachel Haim, the daughter of Rabbi Moshe Haim, who renewed Torah scholarship in Baghdad.<ref name="benyamin">{{Cite web|title=Benyamin Yehezkal Yehuda|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Benyamin-Yehuda/6000000007207768316|access-date=
The
Iraqi Jewish historian Abraham Ben-Jacob says the flight of David Sassoon from Baghdad prompted his friend Ezekiel Judah to do the same, travelling with his son Sassoon Judah to India.<ref name="y1985">{{Cite book|last=Ben-Jacob|first=Abraham|url=https://books.google.
Ezekiel Judah appears to have
Ezekiel Judah and the Judah family are described in the epic travelogue of the Ashkenazi Jewish writer [[J. J. Benjamin]].
Ezekiel
In Calcutta, Ezekiel Judah, as in Bombay, like his relative
Ezekiel Judah died on April
== Legacy ==
After the death of Ezekiel Judah two branches of the Judah or Yehuda family developed, a rabbinical one settling in Jerusalem and a mercantile one remaining in Calcutta and eventually migrating to London after the end of British rule.
'''Yehuda Family of Jerusalem'''
One of Ezekiel
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Upon arriving in Jerusalem Rabbi Shlomo Yehezkel Yehuda set aside one room of his home for ten students to study Torah throughout the day, often studied with them and established a scholarship fund for their welfare.<ref name="efrati"/> Thanks to the fortune of his father Ezekiel Judah, Rabbi Shlomo Yehezkel Yehuda played an important role in building the Sephardic Jewish community and rabbinical infrastructure in Jerusalem. He established the yeshiva Knesset Yehezkel, named in honour of his father, in 1858, which he maintained with a large fortune he inherited from his father in Calcutta.<ref name="ben-arieh">{{Cite book|last=Ben-Arieh|first=Yehoshua|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GHHsDwAAQBAJ&
Ezekiel
During his lifetime Rabbi Shlomo Yehezkel Yehuda became close with Ashkenazi scholars. Soon after his arrival Rabbi Shlomo Yehezkel Yehuda stunned deeply conservative Jerusalem religious society in 1854 when he married his daughter
[[David Yellin]], the son of
The Yehuda family of Jerusalem continued to actively trade with the Judah family in Calcutta, their wealthy relatives in India throughout the
According to the Encyclopaedia of the Founders and the Builders of Israel, Rabbi Binyamin Yehuda, the son of Rabbi Shlomo Yehezkel Yehuda, died after a collapse in the capital of himself and his brothers meant he was no longer able to distribute alms to the poor as was his custom and
'''Judah Family of Calcutta'''
The mercantile branch of the family remained in India and was known as the Yehuda and subsequently when the name was anglicised during British rule, the Judah family of Calcutta.
'''Calcutta Synagogues'''
In terms of Ezekiel
'''Descendants'''
Ezekiel
== References ==
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[[Category:1800 births]]
[[Category:1860 deaths]]
[[Category:Iraqi Jews]]
[[Category:Talmudists]]
[[Category:Businesspeople from Baghdad]]
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