Letter: MIAC 200

Letter MIAC 200

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Announcement for the Day of Geniza on which old prayerbooks unfit for repair will be transferred to the cave in the Bassatine and the process will take place at 8:30am from the Ustādh Synagogue in the Jewish Quarter after the "Shaḥarit" [morning] prayer. Dated: Sunday 18 December 1949 CE / 27 Kislev 5710 AM. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 43). An original scan of this announcement is available in al-Janīza wa-l-maʿābid al-yahūdiyya fī Miṣr (p. 200). MCD.

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