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'''David Jacob Cohen''' [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (died 9 February 1959) was an [[India]]n politician and a leading figure of the [[Baghdadi Jew]]ish community in [[Calcutta]].<ref name="a"/><ref name="e"/> He served as honorary secretary of the Beth-El Synagogue.<ref>Roland, Joan G. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=kHJccZ92IecC&pg=PA117 The Jewish Communities of India: Identity in a Colonial Era]''. New Brunswick [u.a.]: Transaction Publ, 1998. p. 117</ref> Cohen, then serving as vice president of the Calcutta Jewish Association, was to the [[Bengal Legislative Council]] from the Calcutta South Central non-Mohammedan constituency in 1921.<ref name="e"/><ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=xSkdAQAAMAAJ The Indian Year Book]'', Vol. 8–9. Bennett, Coleman & Company, 1921. p. 65</ref> Being elected to the Legislative Council was the highest political office obtained by a [[Calcutta Jew]].<ref name="b">Roland, Joan G. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=kHJccZ92IecC&pg=PA338 The Jewish Communities of India: Identity in a Colonial Era]''. New Brunswick [u.a.]: Transaction Publ, 1998. p. 338</ref> He was defeated in the 1923 election, but was nominated by the Governor to remain in the Council in 1923 and 1926.<ref name="e">Egorova, Yulia. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=1m_okSx7ds4C&pg=PA92 Jews and India: Perceptions and Image]''. London: Routledge, 2006. pp. 92-93</ref>