Abraham Danon

Under the title Toledot bene Abraham, Danon published a Hebrew translation of Théodore Reinach's Histoire des juifs (Presburg, 1888), completing the story, as he says in the preface, by extracts from Graetz, Geiger, Kalman Schulman, and others. Under the title Maskil le-Edan ('Edan's Poem', abbreviation of 'Abraham Josef Danon'), he published a series of Hebrew translations of the poems of Virgil, Victor Hugo, and Saadi, together with some original contributions (Adrianople, 1888).

Danon's main achievement was his initiative in founding at Adrianople in 1888 the historical review Yosef da'at, or El Progresso, which was published in Hebrew characters in Judæo-Spanish, Hebrew, and Turkish. The aim of the review was to collect all the documents relating to the history of the Oriental Jews. But the Ottoman government censorship suppressed this review, together with all others published in Turkey.

Danon published a collection of fifty-five Judæo-Spanish ballads which are sung in Turkey, each ballad being accompanied by its French translation. They first appeared in the Revue des études juives, and were published separately by Durlacher in Paris in 1896. Danon also published some studies on the Jews of Adrianople and of Salonica, which appeared in the same review.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Franco, M. (1903). "Danon, Abraham". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 434–435.