Creator Bio
Menahem Salih Daniel
1846–1940
Menahem Salih Daniel was a prominent landowner, merchant, and philanthropist in Baghdad and a spokesman for the Jewish community in the early years of Iraqi independence. He was a delegate for Baghdad in the first Ottoman parliament in Istanbul in 1877 and a senator in the Iraqi legislature from 1925 to 1932. He was a supporter of both Jewish and Muslim charities and cofounder of the Red Crescent society in Iraq.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Letter to Chaim Weizmann
The Secretary
Zionist Organisation
London
Baghdad, 8th September 1922
Dear Sir,
I have the pleasure to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 20th July 1922. It is needless to say that I greatly…