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Accounts for the months of Tishrei and Heshvan. Income is listed from individuals as well as from two synagogues: that of R. Hayyim [Capousi] and …
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Calendar for the year 1671/72 CE. Verso includes several lists including a list of 15 synagogues, including Talmud Tora and Kaniṣ Abū Shaʿra. AA/ASE
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Of the 'Miṣriyyīn' synagogue. Dating: 18th or 19th century.
Communal accounts for two synagogues in Cairo. Dated 5584 AM (1823/24 CE). The right side of the bifolio mentions the Ḥayyīm Capoussi Synagogue and the …
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo (מצרים). Dated: Tuesday, 2 Heshvan 5324 AM = 19 October 1563 CE. Doña Masʿūda (the same Doña Masʿūda as …
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Colophon in Judaeo-Arabic. The work (...ʿalā madhhab al-[???]...) was completed in Rabīʿ I 1023 AH, which is 1614 CE, in the synagogue of al-Ḥakham ʿAṭiyya. …
Late legal document in Hebrew regarding a partnership (one of the partners is named Faraj). It refers to the quppah of the synagogue of the …
Announcement from the Cairo Jewish community for a celebration at the Vitali Madjar Synagogue in Heliopolis – on the occasion of celebrating in the Jewish …
Letter from the Grand Rabbinate of Cairo to Kẖawaja Elli Abimalor and Kẖawaja Shlomo Lijar requesting that they not give away any of the contents …
Receipt for a night in the dormitory of a synagogue and the Zionist man was staying in Cairo – 15 July 1949CE – Museum of …
Announcement on an important meeting of the Jewish communities of Egypt at the site of the Ismaʿīli Synagogue in Cairo, on the finances of the …
Letter from the Grand Rabbinate of Cairo to Kẖawaja Nesīr Bēsaḥ president of the Heliopolis synagogue (Maṣr al-Jadīda) regarding the person known as Levi ʿArūsa, …
Announcement to the members of the Jewish community of Cairo on the occasion of the yearly visit to the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat – …
Announcement written in Yiddish from the committee of Ashkenazi Jewish synagogues of Cairo about the reservation of places in the main synagogue and urging those …
Rental deed. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Thursday, 22 Tammuz [5]355 AM = 29 June 1595 CE. Yaʿaqov Castro is renting to Yosef Loḥamit. Signed by Moshe …
Recto: The first few lines of an Ottoman-era legal document, bearing two seals and an annotation in a different hand, opening with an invocation of …
There are several different entries, and each seems to involve rent payments for the qodesh of the Synagogue of the Mustaʿribim. Quite faded, merits further …
List of names and monetary contributions received by the Rambam Synagogue congregation in Cairo (ק׳׳ק הרמבם). Dated 5603 AM which is 1842/1843 CE. The heading …
Account statements for the Shabbat Aḥīm Synagogue in New Cairo – 1923-1924CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 227) – in Arabic. (information from …
Invitation from the Jewish community of Maḥallah al-Kubra for a visit to the synagogue of "Ḥayyim al-Amshaṭī" – 5 April 1950 – Museum of Islamic …
Letter written in Tel-Aviv to a person named Marko inviting him into the agreement with the contractor Albert Ḥanān Lilbet[?] in the restoration and repairs …
Legal document from Cairo dated 15 Shevaṭ 5505 AM (= 1745 CE), describing the appointment of Joseph ha-Levi as cantor. The location given for the …
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בהיות שהבית הכנסת שבפנים חארת אלקראיין שהיא תוך המבוי שאצל הכ'ורונפש הנודע בק׳׳ק
כ'אלתי מסעודה כיון שנתעוללו על הקהל הנז׳ הגוים ה…
30 pages of a notebook of lined paper, filled with names and numbers arranged according to days of the week. Probably 19th century (this is …
Late communal accounts of some kind, funds collected for/from different individuals and congregations. Dated "in the year [5]555." In the same list on verso, many …
List of communal accounts for the "ʿQ[ahal] Q[adosh] ʿEzra ha-Sofer" congregation (ק׳׳ק עזרה הסופר). Dated 21 Tishrei– the seventh day of Sukkot "יום הושענא רבא"–on …
:Right side of bifolio
Announcement from the Grand Rabbinate of Cairo [Ḥakhamhāne Miṣr] for the celebration of the coronation of the King of Britain – Museum of Islamic Art …
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Letter from "the Jewish national bank in Egypt at 14 Abū al-Sabāʿa Street with the slogan of access to "Erets Israel" (the Land of Israel) …
Receipt from a synagogue of the Ashkenazi Jews in Cairo – 1943CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 158) – in Hebrew and French. …
Invitation from the administration of the Paḥad Isḥak Synagogue (Kraïem) for attending the celebration which will be held in the synagogue on Passover between Saturday …
Recto: The main text is a Judaeo-Arabic sermon/exhortation that in order to avert the evil decrees and the plague and the economic depression, all members …
Announcement by the Ashkenazi Jewish community of Cairo for the opening of a public clinic in the neighborhood of the communal synagogue on Rosette Gardens …
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Part of a newspaper "al-Klīm" published by Karaite Jews discussing the visit of the Chief General Muḥammad al-Nagīb to the Karaite synagogue on Saturday October …
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 …
Karaite inheritance documents on a bifiolium. Date: c. 5505 AM (1744/1745 CE). The date Tishrei 5499 AM is given in line 21 (f.1r) as the …
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Short note by the gabbai Avraham Yuʿbaṣ affirming that Kasīm (?) Meyuḥas will rent a house on "darb al-midrash" (on the street of the beit …
Karaite betrothal document. Date: 1 Tevet 5490 AM (1729 CE). Location: Cairo. The previously unmarried bride is Esther bt. Yeshūʿa b. Avraham and the groom …
List from 1593 CE dated Elul 5353 and early 5354, headed as "the remainder of the houses of the qodesh of the Musta'rib congregation." It …
Legal document for a investment partnership to benefit the communal fund for study of the Sefer Zohar in Old Cairo (Fusṭāt). Avraham Mosseri receives money …
בהיות שנכתב שטר עסקא כהוגן וכשורה וענינו שהיקר נשא ונעלה כמה׳׳ר אברהם מוצירי יצ׳׳ו בן לאותו
צדיק החכם…
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28 pages of communal and financial and legal records. Pages 1 and 14 are registers of deaths, one on page 14 dated 1661/1662 CE (5422 …