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Region: Calcutta

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Eldest son of David Joseph Ezra, he had the Magen David synagogue of Calcutta built in 1884 in honor of his father and was himself sheriff of Calcutta; an inscription in the synagogue describes him as « the father of the Jewish community ».

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