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Yosef b. Moshe Ben Yijū

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Gender
Male
Social roles
  • Jewish communal official
  • Jewish community member
Other name
יוסף בן משה

Description / Bio

"Joseph b. Moses was praised in his youth as a diligent and discerning student while he was completing his studies in Fustat, and he too later took up a post as a religious functionary--we find him writing a dowry list." (Goitein & Friedman, India Book, pg. 85) As a young man, Yosef studied in Fustat alongside his cousin, Peraḥyā b. Nissīm, likely under the tutelage of Ḥananel b. Shemuʾel Ibn al-Amshāṭī, an in-law of Maimonides. Yosef married another cousin, Peraḥyā's sister, who remained with Yosef's parents while he completed his studies.

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  1. S. D. Goitein, A Mediterranean society; the Jewish communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza (University of California Press, 1967-1993, 1967), vol. 3.
Sasha Batz Stern, "Yosef b. Moshe Ben Yijū," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/yosef-b-moshe-ben-yiju/, accessed June 30, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/yosef-b-moshe-ben-yiju/