Jonas Ennery (Jan. 2, 1801, Nancy - May 19, 1863,

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) was a French deputy. He was for twenty-six years attached to the Jewish school of

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, of which he became the head. In collaboration with Hirth, he compiled a ''Dictionnaire Général de Géographie Universelle'' (4 vols., Strasburg, 1839–41), for which Cuvier wrote a preface. Soon afterward he published ''Le Sentier d'Israël, ou Bible des Jeunes Israélites'' (Paris, Metz, and Strasburg, 1843). At the request of the ''Société des Bons Livres'' he took part in the editorship of ''Prières d'un Cœur Israélite'', which appeared in 1848. In 1849, despite anti-Jewish rioting in

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, Ennery was elected representative for the department of the Lower Rhine, and sat among the members of the "Mountain." He devoted his attention principally to scholastic questions. After the coup d'état he resisted the new order of things, and was exiled for life in 1852. He retired to Brussels, where he lived as a teacher until his death. Ennery's brother,

Marchand Ennery Marchand Ennery () was a French rabbi; brother of Jonas Ennery; born in Nancy 1792; died in Paris 21 August 1852; studied Talmud under Baruch Guggenheim and at the rabbinical school of Herz Scheuer, in Mainz. He went to Paris, became teacher in ...

, was the chief

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of Paris.

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* 1801 births 1863 deaths Writers from Nancy, France Politicians from Nancy, France Jewish French politicians The Mountain (1849) politicians Members of the National Legislative Assembly of the French Second Republic French lexicographers French geographers French educators 19th-century lexicographers {{BasRhin-politician-stub