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Efrayim b. Shemarya

מטא-דאטא

Gender
Male
מסמכים
Active dates
1007–1055 CE
Posthumous mentions
1055 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 (Brill, 1999).
Rachel Richman, 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 February 8, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/efrayim-b-shemarya/