Marchand Ennery () was a French

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; brother of Jonas Ennery; born in Nancy 1792; died in

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21 August 1852; studied

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under Baruch Guggenheim and at the rabbinical school of Herz Scheuer, in

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. He went to Paris, became teacher in the family of a wealthy coreligionist, and in 1819 was appointed director of the new Jewish school at Nancy. At this time he published his Hebrew-French

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, the first of its kind to appear in France. In 1829 he became chief rabbi of Paris; in 1846 chief rabbi of the Central Consistory; in 1850 chevalier of the

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. He was succeeded as chief rabbi by

Salomon Ulmann Salomon Ulmann (February 25, 1806 at Saverne, Bas-Rhin – May 5, 1865 in Paris), was a French rabbi. He commenced his rabbinical studies at Strasburg under Moïse Bloch (better known as Rabbi Mosche Utenheim), and was the first pupil enroll ...

Publications

* ''Dictionnaire hébreu-français'' (first edition: 1827), Colbo, 1981 * ''Dictionnaire de la Bible hébraïque'', Colbo, 1996, * ''Lexique hébreu-français'', Durlacher, Paris, 1949

Bibliography

* ''Histoire des Juifs en France'', under the direction of

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, Privat, 1972 * ''Dictionnaire biographique des rabbins et autres ministres du culte israélite; France et Algérie, du Grand Sanhédrin (1807) à la loi de Séparation(1905)'' - Berg International Éditeurs, Paris, 2007, notice E37, pages 283–285.

References

* Clergy from Nancy, France 1792 births 1852 deaths French lexicographers Knights of the Legion of Honour 19th-century French rabbis French Hebraists Chief rabbis of France Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery 19th-century lexicographers Writers from Nancy, France {{france-rabbi-stub