[Letter to the Jews of Fustat] : manuscript

Contributor:

Yosef ben Shelomoh, ha-Kohen, active 11th century (scribe)

Name:

Rabbis of the Jewish Community of Jerusalem

Timespan:

To 1800; To 1500

Date:

1030

Language:

Hebrew

Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).; Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).; Sulzberger.

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Yosef ben Shelomoh, ha-Kohen, active 11th century Correspondence; Efraim ben Shemarya, approximately 980-approximately 1060 Correspondence; Efraim ben Shemarya, approximately 980-approximately 1060; Rabbis -- Jerusalem -- Office -- History -- To 1500; Rabbis; History; Tax collection -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Jews -- Egypt -- Charities -- History -- To 1500; Jews -- Jerusalem -- To 1800; Hebrew letters; Jews; Charities; Tax collection

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Correspondence; Personal correspondence

Physical Description:

1 folio : torn, loss in upper edge; folded in mail format; verso is blank

Geographic Subject:

Egypt

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

A letter in florid Hebrew, in some places rhyming, authorizing Japheth he-Ḥazzan ben Jacob, to collect donations for the Jewish Community of Jerusalem. The Community owes 40 gold coins (dinar) in taxes.; They inquire about the collection for the poor. The hand is recognized as that of Joseph ha-kohen he-Ḥaver (signed here l. 29), the scribe of this community, the son of R. Solomon ben Judah Gaon (d. 1051, see Mann, The Jews of Egypt, 1919, vol. 1 pp. 75-152).; Signed in autograph by the leadership of the Jerusalem Community: 1. Solomon ha-kohen ben Mordekhai, 2. Mevasser ben Shela, 3. Moses ha-Levi ben Joseph חזן הכנסת, 4. Jeshua ben Yeḥiye, 5. Japhet ben Naḥum, 6. Ḥayim ben Solomon, 7. Nathan ben Judah, 8. Moses ben Jacob, 9. Moses ben Judah, and 10. Joseph ha-kohen.; Nos. 1, 6, 7 are also signed on a similar letter to Fustat, Mosseri I.16/ENA 2804, 20 ( published, Gil, ibid pp. 201-203, no. 110).; The epistle was probably sent to Ephraim ben Shemaryah, referred to here (l. 22) as he-Ḥaver, who served as the head of the Erets Israeli community of Fustat, (in whose synagogue the Genizah was housed) in documents between 1020-1047 (see E. Bareqet, Shafrir Mitsraim, 1995, pp. 100-121, =Fustat on the Nile, Leiden, 1999, pp. 129-160).; He earned the title "he-Ḥaver", as in this letter, in 1025 (Bareqet ibid. p. 104, idem. p. 135). See Bareqet: Yehude Mitsrayim 1007-1055 / Elinoar Bareqet. Jerusalem : Mekhon Ben-Tsevi, 1995, p. 63; Mann ibid. vol. II pp. 124-129.; Hebrew. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 392

Collection:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library)