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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.
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 …
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 …
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, …
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. …
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 on an important meeting of the Jewish communities of Egypt at the site of the Ismaʿīli Synagogue in Cairo, on the finances of the …
Receipt for a night in the dormitory of a synagogue and the Zionist man was staying in Cairo – 15 July 1949CE – Museum of …
Announcement from the Cairo Jewish community for a celebration at the Vitali Madjar Synagogue in Heliopolis – on the occasion of celebrating in the Jewish …
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 …
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 …
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 figures related to communal finances for the Rambam Synagogue congregation in Cairo (ק׳׳ק הרמבם). Dated 5603 AM which is 1842/1843 …
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 החבז(…
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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) …
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 …
Late accounts of some kind, perhaps funds collected from different individuals and congregations. The trader Merkado Karo is mentioned, placing the date ca. 1800 CE …
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 …
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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Receipt from a synagogue of the Ashkenazi Jews in Cairo – 1943CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 158) – in Hebrew and French. …
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 …
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 for the Day of Geniza on which old prayerbooks unfit for repair will be transferred to the cave in the Bassatine and the process …
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 …
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 השלם חסידא קדישא כמה׳׳ר רחמים מוציר…
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 …