found: Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, September 23, 2015under Haddad, Ezra (Ezra Ḥaddād (1900?-1972) was a prominent Baghdadi Jewish educator, author, journalist, and translator. He received both a traditional education at the Midrash Talmud Torah and a modern one at the Al-Taʻāwwun school (later renamed after Rachel Shaḥmon), where he studied Turkish, Persian, and French. Beginning in 1922 he taught Arabic, English, and history in the Talmud Torah school. From 1923 (or 1924) to 1928, he was headmaster of the Al-Waṭanīyya Jewish secondary school; from 1928 to 1933 he was vice-headmaster of the Shammash school. He again served as headmaster of Al-Waṭanīyya from 1933 (or 1934) through the 1940s. In 1949, he was appointed general inspector of Jewish schools in Baghdad, a post he held until his emigration to Israel in 1951. With command of Arabic, Hebrew, English, French, Turkish, Persian, and possibly also German, Ḥaddād had an extensive private library and published in Arabic, Hebrew, and English.)
