رسالة: T-S 28.1

الوصف

Letter from Ḥushiel b. Elḥanan, in Qayrawān, to Shemarya b. Elḥanan, in Fusṭāṭ. In which Ḥushiel praises both the addressee and his son Elḥanan, and describes how he came from Italy to settle in Qayrawān. Mentions Yehuda Resh [Sidra], Yosef b. Berakhya, Nissim, and Avraham b. Natan. Dating: ca. beginning of the 11th century. (Information from CUDL.) This was among the first Geniza documents to be published; see Schechter, "Geniza Specimens: A Letter of Chushiel," JQR Old Series Vol. 11, No. 4 (1899), 643–50.