Letter to Chaim Weizmann

Menahem Salih Daniel

1922

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 appreciate and admire your noble ideal, and would have been glad to be able to contribute towards its realization.

But in this country [Iraq] the…

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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.

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