Ezra Sasson ben Reuven Dangoor was born in 1848 in Baghdad, Iraq.

He was educated in Baghdad, where he studied under Rabbi Abdallah Somekh.

Dangoor worked as a ritual slaughterer and ritual circumciser, before from 1880 to 1886 working as the scribe in charge of writing documents issued by the Baghdad's Bet Din.

[1] Dangoor was the Chief Rabbi of Rangoon, Burma from 1893 or 1894, but had to return to Baghdad in 1895 due to ill health.

[2] Dangoor had five children: Sion, Abdulla Joseph, Farha (who married Shaul Basri), Eliahou and Moshe.