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Search site. Cambridge University Library. "We offer you our thanks": Cambridge's letter to Egypt's Jewish community. ... We offer you our thanks": Cambridge's letter to Egypt's Jewish community.

He received permission from the Jewish community of Egypt to take away what he liked (explaining later, ‘I liked it all’), and he brought 193,000 manuscripts back to Cambridge, where ... Assembled by the successful Cairene businessman, Jacques (Jack)

1 Jun 2024: For a thousand years, the Jewish community of Fustat (Old Cairo), placed their worn-out books and other writings in a storeroom (genizah) of the Ben Ezra Synagogue, and in ... He received permission from the Jewish community of Egypt to take away what he

1 Jun 2024: For a thousand years, the Jewish community of Fustat (Old Cairo), placed their worn-out books and other writings in a storeroom (genizah) of the Ben Ezra Synagogue, and in ... He received permission from the Jewish community of Egypt to take away what he

were redeemable at full price at the nearest Jewish community, all of which honoured the talmudic dictum that Jews are responsible for each other: kol yisrael arevim zeh bazeh. ... Medicine and prayer. As Dr Haskell D. Isaacs, Research Associate in the

31 May 2024: The Jewish community of Egypt has continued to grow throughout history through waves of immigrations, particularly following expulsions from the Iberian Peninsula, the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 which ... Centring on Cairo’s Jewish quarter, it

2 Jun 2024: Following Golb’s original publication he became aware that there was a local tradition in Monieux of the historical existence of a Jewish community, or, as he puts it in his ... Gerber: 83–99. Cohen, M. (2005). Poverty and Charity in the Jewish

2 Jun 2024: The future of Egypt’s past: the Mosseri Collection.. ... After Schechter brought his famed hoard to Cambridge, Mosseri, a prominent member of Egypt’s Jewish community with a keen interest in its history, and knowing that other manuscripts had been

2 Jun 2024: conveyed to the Jewish community of Cairo by the University Orator in the Senate House. ... To the Heads of the Jewish Community in Cairo:. We offer you our thanks, not only on account of the singular goodwill with which you received our Reader in

2 Jun 2024: After Schechter brought his famed hoard to Cambridge, Mosseri, a prominent member of Egypt’s Jewish community with a keen interest in its history, and knowing that other manuscripts had been ... Geṭ groundwork from the Cairo Genizah: practising