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Registration certificate for an Egyptian Jew in the schedule of the elections – December 1930CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 45) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 61). MCD.

Letter sent from the committee of the Jewish community in Jaffa and Tel-Aviv to Rabbi Yaʿacov Meʾīr on the occasion of reaching the age of eighty and signed at the ending by the vice-president and secretary – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 46) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 53). MCD.

Personal letter sent from Jaffa in which the sender, Yaʿīsh Pineḥas ʿIraqī, notifies his correspondent, Shalōm, of the improvement of his health and then sends salutations to the recipient's siblings – 5 Nisan 1932CE – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 47) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 52). A scan of this letter and a translation to Arabic are available in Al-Janiza wa-l-maʿābid al-Yahūdiyya fī Miṣr (pp. 176-179). MCD.

Letter pledging to pay the rent on agricultural river floodland – 1926CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 48) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 73). MCD.

Bill of exchange pledged for the rental of river floodland in which the amount paid is to the Jewish owner of the land – 18 October 1916CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 48) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 71). MCD.

Letter from the Yeshiva Ahava VeAhva reporting on the increased participation in services – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 49) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 74). MCD.

Contract for the sale of a house in the center of Ṭanṭa in the amount of thirty thousand qirsh – 27 April 1921CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 5) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 73). MCD.

Bill for an amount received from the owner of Jewish printing house in Tel-Aviv – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 50) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 71). MCD.

Receipt for the price of printing the book of Rabbi Yosef ʿAnībī – 1916CE – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 50) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 73). MCD.

Notice from the president of the board of directors of the Jewish hospital to supervisor Mr. Eliyyahu Ḥayyim of the social center in Cairo to maintain responsibility over providing the free daily breakfasts despite the prior notice – 4 July 1965 – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 52) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 63). The prior notice is likely MIAC 196– dated June 29, 1965 –ordering the cancellation of these breakfasts. MIAC 52 is the latest dated document in the Rabīʿa's museum catalogue and therefore may represent the most recent document from the genizot of Cairo that is held by an archival institution. MCD.

Statement from the Jewish hospital in Cairo to a supervisor that the social center in Cairo will not be providing morning meals – June 28 1965CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 52) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 60). MCD.

Image from an announcement for the press and publishing house of Samuel Levi Ṣukīsermān regarding the publishing of the "Torah from Zion" and the bottom of the announcment is about the receipt of an amount of money payment for a copy of the book "Ve-Yitsbor Yosef" in Hebrew and some German – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 53) – undated. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 36). MCD.

Letter from "the Jewish national bank in Egypt at 14 Abū al-Sabāʿa Street with the slogan of access to "Erets Israel" (the Land of Israel) for the Jewish people 'dispersed' for centuries when the possibility of return to their homeland was lost," wishing a person in the synagogue of ʿAbassīya a happy new year on the occasion of the Jewish new year, and requesting the collection of "pledges" of assistance to the bank – 9 September 1928CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 54) – in French. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 65). MCD.

Prayer text for the absent and killed of Israel on Yom Kippur – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 56) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 37). MCD.

Questions particularly on an excerpt from the Book of Numbers – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 87) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 35). MCD.

Marriage contract – 5690AM – 1930CE – (number 58) – in Hebrew and Aramaic in manuscript and print. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 58). MCD.

Certificate of the completion of studies for an Egyptian Jewish student in the community school, and the subjects that it teaches – 1937CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 59) – in Hebrew and French. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa. ed. Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 28). MCD.

Receipt for payment of the rental on the river floodland in the amount of 1926 qirsh – 15 October 1915CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 6) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 71). MCD.

Responses to "Epicureanism" – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 61) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 38). MCD.

Paper numbered as (2) and it seems that it is from a letter for a question regarding family and children, and a discussion on fasting, and the place of the child Rosa – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 63) – in Yiddish. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 49). MCD.