Letter: ENA 2594.12

Letter ENA 2594.12

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Letter from Alexandria, the writer is a person from Ramla (who lived for twenty years in Baghdad). He writes to Mevorakh b. Se’adya ha-Nagid or one of his closest people. Around 1095. The writer refers to himself as Mevorakh’s servant. He asks Mevorakh to help his daughter who is in Fustat while he is in Alexandria. Mentions several details about the Jews in Iraq as well as the head of the Eretz Yisraeli Yeshiva, Evyatar ha-Kohen b. Eliyyahu. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #86, where the shelfmark is incorrectly listed as ENA NS 9.15). By the same writer as T-S 12.780. VMR.

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ENA 2594.12 2

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