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Saʿāda

מטא-דאטא

Gender
Female
Social role
  • Enslaved person

Description / Bio

Sudāniyya enslaved woman who served as a child-nurse (dāda), mentioned together with her unnamed son in a deathbed letter. Saʿāda's enslaver wrote to her sister to express her wishes that the enslaved woman continue to care for her daughter (who will soon be motherless). (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 78)

Matthew Dudley, "Saʿāda," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/saada/, accessed June 2, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/saada/