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Efrayim b. Shemarya

Metadata

Gender
Male
Active dates
14 September, 1007 – 1040 CE
Social role
Jewish communal official
Other names
אפרים החבר ברבי שמריה
(Abū Kathīr) Efrayim b. Shemarya

Description / Bio

Head of the congregation of the Shāmīs in Fustat (the one based in the synagogue later called the Ben Ezra). Floruit ca. 1007–1055.

Select bibliography

  1. Elinoar Bareket, Fustat on the Nile: The Jewish Elite in Medieval Egypt (Leiden; Boston; Cologne: Brill, 1999).
Marina Rustow and Ksenia Ryzhova, "Efrayim b. Shemarya," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/efrayim-b-shemarya/, accessed November 21, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/efrayim-b-shemarya/