Letter: ENA 2735.1

Letter ENA 2735.1

Metadata

Shelfmark
ENA 2735.1
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic
Secondary Language
Hebrew

What's in the PGP

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Description

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic with a Hebrew beginning to (probably Shemuel b.) Hananya. The opening contains an interesting blessing: "(May God) make your wife at home like Ra[hel and Leah, and together(?)] you will build the house of Yisrael" - perhaps the letter was written close to Shemuel's wedding. The writer reports about a journey he made in which he was in danger. He visited a place where a Jew had been killed. The name Tuvya the son of the man from Banias is mentioned. In the greetings in the end of the letter Abu Ishaq, Sitt al-Dallal , Sitt al-Sada, Abu al-Ma'ali and Abu Sahl the cantor are mentioned.

Additional metadata

Collection
Jewish Theological Seminary Library
Historical shelfmarks
ENA 2735, f. 1; ENA 2735, fol. 1
Input date
In PGP since 2017
Image
Transcription
Translation

ENA 2735.1 1

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1

ENA 2735.1 2

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2
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Jewish Theological Seminary Library, ENA 2735.1. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/6668/ (accessed June 3, 2026).