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Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm

بيانات التعريف

Gender
Male
Dates
Active dates
1775–1825 CE
Posthumous mentions
3 سبتمبر 1826–15 سبتمبر 1841 CE
Social roles
  • Jewish communal official
  • Jewish community member
  • Merchant
Other names
Meʾīr b. Shalōm Ben-Naʿīm
מאיר ן׳ נעים

Description / Bio

Prolific legal scribe, businessman, and judge who served the Jewish community of Cairo during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Based on current cataloging totals, Meʾīr left a wider geniza paper trail than any other early modern scribe. His death c. 1825 CE is attested indirectly in an in an investment partnership from 1826 between his wife Roza and son Moshe: T-S 13J18.30. (Information from Dudley, Into the Anti-Archives, Chapter 2)

Select bibliography

  1. Matthew Dudley, "Into the Anti-Archives: Jewish Law, Ottoman Imperial Administration, and the Early Modern Cairo Geniza" (PhD diss., Yale University, 2024).
Matthew Dudley, "Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/meir-ben-naim/, accessed August 16, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/meir-ben-naim/