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HA-GE’ULLAH
Amnon Netzer
Judeo-Persian weekly newspaper published in Tehran between 1920 and 1923.
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ḤAIM, MOREH ḤAḴĀM
Amnon Netzer
eminent Jewish scholar (b. Tehran, 1872; d. Tehran, 1942).
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KALIMI
Amnon Netzer
the word used to refer to the Jews of Iran in modern Persian usage. The word “kalimi” derives from the Arabic root KLM meaning to address, to speak, but the appellation in this context is derived directly from the specific epithet given to the prophet Moses as Kalim-Allāh.
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BACHER, WILHELM
A. Netzer
(1850-1913), Hungarian scholar of Persian and Judeo-Persian language and literature.
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BĀBĀʾĪ BEN NŪRĪʾEL
Amnon Netzer
rabbi (ḥāḵām) from Isfahan; at the behest of Nāder Shah Afšār (r. 1736-47), he translated the Pentateuch and the Psalms of David from Hebrew into Persian.
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DĀNĪĀL B. MOŠEH QŪMESĪ
Amnon Netzer
Persian Jewish scholar and exegete of the Karaite sect, the members of which rejected rabbinical writings later than the Bible itself.
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BĀBĀʾĪ BEN FARHĀD
Amnon Netzer
18th-century author of a versified history of the Jews of Kāšān with brief references to the Jews of Isfahan and one or two other towns.
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ESTHER AND MORDECHAI
Amnon Netzer
a Jewish shrine in the city of Hamadān, where, according to Judeo-Persian tradition, Esther and Mordechai are buried.
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ʿEZRĀ-NĀMA
Amnon Netzer
paraphrased versification of the Book of ʿEzrā containing midrashic and Iranian legends.
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ḤAIM, ŠEMUʾEL
Amnon Netzer
generally known as Monsieur Ḥaim or Mister Ḥaim, journalist and Majles deputy (b. Kermānšāh, 1891; executed Tehran, Dec. 15, 1931).