[Letter to R. Solomon] : manuscript

Name:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 415; Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 416

Date:

1765

Language:

Hebrew

Provenance:

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

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Hebrew letters

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

1 folio : 2 fragments torn lengthwise into 2 uneven pieces; loss in upper right corner; folio was folded in mail format, two folds on the right third; verso is blank

Rights:

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

Notes:

Recto in 3 columns of 39, 8 (on the first fold), and 6 (on second fold).; The writer reports how he left Jerusalem for Giza where he was living with Christians from Bethlehem. Stricken with cholera, he departed by ship. He was healed, but then ran into financial and legal complications.; He subsequently visited R. Mordekhai Algazi in Cairo. He was jailed for three days for failing to pay a debt. He left jail penniless, and was taken in for the Sabbath by a local Rabbi. He is now begging for support.; The content is prefaced by the date.; Hebrew. Hebrew; Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 416; Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 415