List or table: JRL SERIES C 127

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List of communal accounts for the "ʿQ[ehil] Q[edosh] ʿEzra ha-Sofer" congregation (ק׳׳ק עזרא הסופר). Dated 21 Tishrei– the seventh day of Sukkot "יום הושענא רבא"–on the verso [5]605 AM which is October 4, 1844 CE. Given the correspondence in titles, this congregation was likely based in the Ben Ezra Synagogue of Old Cairo (Fusṭāṭ). On the recto "the synagogue" itself is referenced in one of the entries, "אוגרת מעלה[?] פי אלכניס" (wages/the cost of the stairwell[?] in the synagogue). This may be a construction cost given that two of the surrounding entries mention carpenters (אוגרת סקייה נגאר and אוגרת נגאר סקייה). Further examination is required to determine the exact meaning of the recto entries. A long list of contributions from congregation members appears on the verso: Ḥayyīm Shalom, Yaʿ[īsh] Dayyan Shemʿa, ʿAshr Curiel, Shelomo Lombrozo, Ḥayyīm Ḥazān, Yaʿ[īsh] Berakha, Yaʿīsh Ḥadād, Av[raham] Abū-Harūn, bt. ʿAjāmī (first name omitted), Barūkh ʿAfīf, Yōm Ṭov ʿAbīrī, Ḥayyīm Pesaḥ, Sasson Ṭawīl, Shemuʾel Levi, Nissīm Ḥanān, Ḥayyīm Ḥanān, Aṣlān Fnṭān[?], Av[raham] Bshīrī Ḥazaq, Khalīl ʿIbārī, Yaʿaqov Ḥefeṣ, Bialobos (surname), Shalom (surname), Romano (surname), Yeshūʿa Lombrozo, Eliyahu Berakha, Yaʿaqov Raḥamīm, Menaḥem Mizraḥī, David Levi, Yeqūtī Ben-Yarʿa[?], Av[raham] Gatenio, Bakhor Ḥakīm, Shemuʾel Goren, Av[raham] Abū-Harūn, Av[raham] al-Gazī, Yosef Fīḥ___[?], Avraham Diṭayō (Di Taio, Italianate spelling), David Gallico, Ḥayyīm Zagadon, Eliyahu Dayyan, Moshe Najjār, Mordūkh Jund[?], S. Kohen, Avraham Grīyanī, Ya[ʿīsh] Safriʾel, ʿEzra Ardī, Cariyo Aghion, Yahuda Karo, ʿAsher Sūqar, Glīyan[?] Yo [?], Saʿad Wahba[?], Eliyahu Shtawī, Yosef Ḥasūn, David Menashe, wife of Gallico (first name omitted), wife of Ras..l[?], mother of Eliyahu Franses, the wife of __no[?] al-Gāzī, Yaʿaqov Najjār. MCD.