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Nisan 5567 Anno Mundi (9 April 1807–8 May 1807 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated April/May 1807 CE (Nisan 567 = ונשמחה בכל ימנו), from the Jewish community of Safed to the Jewish community of Pisa, specifically the head judge Yiṣḥaq Gallico (יצחק גאליקו), begging for financial aid.

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• gallico
• pisa
• safed

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5487 Anno Mundi (26 September 1726–15 September 1727 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated 1726/27 CE (487 = בל תמוט), from the Jewish community of Safed to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial aid on account of the heavy taxes imposed on them.

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• pisa
• safed

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Primary language

Hebrew

Power of attorney (שטר הרשאה) in which the community of Safed appoints Yisrael Benveniste and Ḥayyīm Mordechai Būnan as their sheliḥim. […] There are numerous signatures (or at least names written out by the scribe), including that of Masʿūd Būnan, perhaps identical with the shaliaḥ sent from Tiberias to Pisa nearly twenty years earlier (Bodl. MS heb. c 64/6).

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• 18th c
• benveniste
• bonan
• late heb
• safed

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Primary language

Hebrew

Dating: Catalogued as 1726 CE.

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• non-geniza
• troki

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5496 Anno Mundi (17 September 1735–5 September 1736 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated 1735/36 CE (496 = קרן לעמו), from the Jewish community of Safed to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial aid on account of a heavy tax of 10,000 גרושו׳ that has been imposed on them.

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• latin script
• pisa
• safed

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Tammuz 5619 Anno Mundi (3 July 1859–31 July 1859 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Form letter from the community of Safed to the communities of 'everywhere.' In Hebrew. […] There is also an addendum from the Ashkenazi congregation of Safed seconding the recommendation, with three signatures and a seal imprint: Siegel der Grosrabinat Israelitische Gemeinde Aschkenasim Safed.

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5508 Anno Mundi (5 September 1747–22 September 1748 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated 1747/48 CE (508 = בשרו), from the Jewish community of Tiberias to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial aid on account of debts owed of 10,000 arayot.

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• bonan
• pisa
• tiberias

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5552 Anno Mundi (29 September 1791–16 September 1792 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated 1791/92 CE (552 = וינטלם וינשאם) from the Jewish community of Jerusalem to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial aid, naming a sum of 70,000 arayot.

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• pisa

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1713 CE

According to Schwarb catalogue: a registration of birth from Safed, 1713 and of death from 1720. AA

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• fgp stub

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5520 Anno Mundi (22 September 1759–10 September 1760 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated 1759/60 CE (520 = תהֿלה לכֿל), from the Jewish community of Tiberias to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial help. They include interesting details about political struggles and unrest in the Galilee and a month-long siege of Tiberias.

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• pisa
• siege
• tiberias
• war

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5542 Anno Mundi (20 September 1781–8 September 1782 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated 1781/82 CE (542 = מבשר) from the Jewish community of Jerusalem to the Jewish community of Pisa begging for financial aid. A sum of 8,000 arayot is named.

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• pisa

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Nisan 5562 Anno Mundi (3 April 1802–2 May 1802 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sent from Yiṣḥaq Ben-Naʿim, in Safed, to Nissim Molkho in Cairo. Yiṣḥaq explains the terrible conditions that have prevailed in Safed since the Jewish community was attacked on Shabbat ha-Gadol, the final Shabbat before Passover, during the French occupation of the city– "in the time of the Christians" (l. 15). When Ottoman forces sought to defeat the French in Safed, their forces "did not return to formations and colors" (l. 16) and sacked the city. Yiṣḥaq explains that Ottoman soldiers killed ten Jews during the siege and after the French left Safed, its residents have been "shirtless" (ll. 21-22).

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• 19th c
• ben na'im
• molcho

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Inferred date

1766–1767 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated 1766/67 CE (527 = וה(י)כינו את (אשר) יביאו) from the Jewish community of Safed to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial help to the tune of 15,000 gerushim. […] The "Italian congregation" of Safed (ק״ק איטאלייאנוס) is mentioned. Their sheliḥim are Yisrael Benveniste and Ḥayyim Mordechai Būnan (their power of attorney is the next shelfmark).

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• 18th c
• benveniste
• bonan
• illness
• illness: fright
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5449 Anno Mundi (25 September 1688–14 September 1689 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated 1688/89 CE (תגילו = 449), from the Jewish community of Izmir to the Jewish community of Pisa, following the economic distress in the aftermath of the 1688 Izmir earthquake. It seems that the community of Pisa had been accustomed to sending charity to communities of the Ottoman Empire (ארצות קוסטאנטינה) but this practice had lapsed.

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• earthquake
• izmir
• pisa

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5487 Anno Mundi (26 September 1726–15 September 1727 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated 1726/27 CE (487 = לך לאות), begging for charity from the Jewish community of Pisa.

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• istanbul
• pisa

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter (or rather three letters) from Mustaʿrib sages, in Safed, to the Nagid Yiṣḥaq Sholal, in Fustat/Cairo. […] These letters complain of the conduct of a certain R. Moshe, the dayyān of Safed in Galilee. If we are to believe the writers, he was a rather unusually vainglorious, selfish and unscrupulous person, guilty of many acts of tyranny, misappropriation and corruption, and responsible for the perennial Safed Meat Scandal."

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• 16th c
• afif b. ezra
• late heb
• safed
• sholal
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2 Iyyar 5562 Anno Mundi (4 May 1802 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic dated 1802 CE (the 17th of matmonim i.e. the Omer = 2 Iyyar 5562 AM) from Yiṣḥaq Ben-Naʿim, in Safed, to his brother Me'ir Ben-Naʿim in Cairo. In addition to family news and salutations, Yiṣḥaq writes about charitable contributions for the Safed community related to his correspondence with Nissim Molkho. […] He also mentions a sum of 1,000 fiḍḍa that Me'ir sent to Safed via Shelomo Barūkh in Damietta, on behalf of Yiṣḥaq/Me'ir's unnamed maternal cousin (בנת כ'אלתי).

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• 19th c
• ben na'im
• late ja

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5539 Anno Mundi (22 September 1778–10 September 1779 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated 1778/79 CE (539 = ותקוה טובה) from the Jewish community of Jerusalem to the Jewish community of Pisa begging for financial aid. The sum of 75,000 arayot is named.

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• famine
• pisa

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Primary language

Hebrew

Opening of a letter to the yeshiva in Safed, from the beginning of the 16th century. The sender is informing on the demise of Shemuel Bahalul.

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• late heb

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Primary language

Hebrew

Form letter from the community of Safed, for the shaliaḥ Yaʿaqov b. Avraham to carry with him in his fundraising.

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Tammuz 5611 Anno Mundi (1 July 1851–29 July 1851 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Form letter from the community of Safed to the communities of 'everywhere.' In Hebrew.

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14 Iyar 5586 Anno Mundi (21 May 1826 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: List of the graves of ṣadiqim visited by Elʿazar ha-Levi of Egypt. Location: Safed. Dated: Pesaḥ Sheni = 14 Iyar 5586 AM, which is 1826 CE.

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• cemetery
• gravesites

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unidentified sender, in Safed, to Mordekhay Ibn ʿAjla, in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic.

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• cyprus
• to examine

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[53]52 Anno Mundi (19 September 1591–6 September 1592 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Yaʿaqov Berav (d. 1599), a former pupil of Yosef Karo and a leading rabbi of Safed from 1593 until his death. A. David suggests that this copy of the document was sent to Safed, where he (and another Avraham b. [...] added their endorsements).

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Thursday, 12 Kislev 4784 Anno Mundi (28 November 1023 CE)

Groom: Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen of Safed. Bride: Raḥel bt. [...] b. Avraham, a virgin.

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• ketubba
• marriage

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Elul 5611 Anno Mundi (29 August 1851–26 September 1851 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Form letter from the community of Safed to the community of Izmir concerning sheliḥim and fundraising.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to the arrival of a ship from Bīsh (מרכב ביש), i.e., Pisa, usually known as بيشة in medieval Arabic documents; see the letters edited in Michele Amari, I diplomi arabi (Florence, 1863), and see T-S 13J13.12 (PGPID 7990) for a reference to the "Bīshānīs," i.e., Pisans.

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• genoese
• pisa

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22 Elul 5685 Anno Mundi (11 September 1925 CE)

Letter sent by the Adath Sefardim congregation of Safed to Avraham b.(?) David Naḥmias in Alexandria. […] Five communal leaders in Safed signed the letter: Shimʿon Darūsh(?), Raḥamīm ha-Kohen, Shelomo Adarʿī, Saʿadiya Luḥana(?)

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• 20th c
• late alexandria
• safed

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Ladino

The writer's uncle is in Safed. The writer's nephew Shemuel ha-Kohen sends his regards.

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• ladino

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Hebrew

David identifies the sender as Avraham Sagish, writing from Jerusalem or Safed, and the addressee as his brother Moshe Sagish.

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13 Heshvan 5333 Anno Mundi (20 October 1572 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Yiṣḥaq (Izak) b. Avraham, in Safed, to a certain Moshe, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew.

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• ashkenazim
• book trade
• late heb

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