title: Marchand Ennery
text: # Marchand Ennery
  
  Marchand Ennery (French pronunciation: ​) 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 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 lexicon, 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 Legion of Honor. He was succeeded as chief rabbi by Salomon Ulmann.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Dictionnaire hébreu-français (first edition: 1827), Colbo, 1981
  * Dictionnaire de la Bible hébraïque, Colbo, 1996, ISBN 2-85332-178-9
  * Lexique hébreu-français, Durlacher, Paris, 1949
  