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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25967

Shelfmark:

Halper 460

Title:

Memorial lists of Jewish leaders in Erets Israel and Fustat

List of names

Place:

Orient

Date:

mid-12th century?

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

losses in upper corners, faded, mostly illegible; conservation along seam and edges

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 folio (bifolium): losses in upper corners, faded, mostly illegible; conservation along seam and edges

Note:

Contains five lists. 1. ll. 1-16: The Gaonim of the Yeshivah in Jerusalem (and later in exile), from 1046 to about 1138, that is the dynasty from Solomon ha-Kohen to Matsliaḥ ha-Kohen.
2. l. 17 - l. 9: The Gaonim of the Yeshivah in Fustat.
3. l. 10 - l. 10: The Dynasty of Nagidim of Egypt. The first legible name in this line is that of Mevorakh ben Saʻadia (1094-1111). The list ends with Nethaniel, who served immediately before Maimonides. See Mann: The The Jews in Egypt and in Palestine under the Fāṭimid caliphs / Jacob Mann. London : Oxford Univ. Press, 1920, v. 2, p. 249-250; M. Cohen: Jewish self-government in medieval Egypt...
4. ll. 11-20: The list of a family of ha-Khamim. Mostly illegible.
5. l. 21- 11: Leaders of the Fustat community; concluded with a prayer for the Community, of which one line is extant.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Registers (Lists)

Talmudic academies

Middle East--Jerusalem

Solomon ben Judah, -1051

Geonim

Nagid

Jewish statesmen

Egypt--Cairo--Fusṭāṭ

Mevorakh ben Saadiah, active 11th century

Matsliaḥ, ha-Kohen, 12th century

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940421363503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p37w67q73/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania