Geniza Lab

Fragment from the publication The Forward discussing fifty-five Jews from the armed forces (the organization of veteran fighters) and one Palestinian, and discussing the sentencing – August 16 1919CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 192) – in Yiddish. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 63). MCD.

Invitation to the dinner in celebration of "Purim" at the community center on Faruq Street – 24 March 1940CE – Bassatine Cemetery – (number 193) – in French. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 46). MCD.

Employee identification card in the name of ʿEzra Mūsā Dayyan – April 20 1939CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 194) – 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.

Personal letter sent from Aden – 1928CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 195) – in Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 50). MCD.

Decision on the cancellation of the morning breakfast hosted in the community center – June 29 1965CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 196) in French. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 49). MCD.

Announcement of the Jewish community in establishing a religious institution for the training of faith leaders, kosher slaughterers, and mohelim beginning with the sending forth of a delegation to Palestine on account of the circumstances of the war and the establishment of an optical clinic – during the Second World War – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 197) Arabic- and French-language. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa. ed. Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 28). MCD.

Announcement for the observance of the Day of Geniza for clusters of texts in the Bassatine Cemetery – 18 December 1949CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 2) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 34). A scan of this fragment is available in Al-Janiza wa-l-maʿābid al-Yahūdiyya fī Miṣr (p.155) and there may be a second copy of the same announcement in the possession of the MIAC as shelfmark 200. MCD.

Letter – 1933CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 20) – in Italian. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 59). MCD.

Announcement for the Day of Geniza on which old prayerbooks unfit for repair will be transferred to the cave in the Bassatine and the process will take place at 8:30am from the Ustāḏ Synagogue in the Jewish Quarter after the "Shahrit" [morning] prayer – Sunday 18 December 1949CE / 27 Kislev 5710AM – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 200) in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 43). An original scan of this announcement is available in Al-Janiza wa-l-maʿābid al-Yahūdiyya fī Miṣr (p. 200). MCD.

Ruling in absentia against the blacksmith Jawhar Maḥmūd of al-Sakākīnī Street where he runs a blacksmith workshop without a permit and he is fined 50 pounds and to be shut down – August 24 1934CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 201) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 65). MCD.

Receipt from the association of the Ashkenazi Jews in Cairo – December 3 1950CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 202) – in French and to the margin Arabic and Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 66). MCD.

Letter in which one Jew is reporting to another about receiving Italian citizenship – 24 November 1913CE – (number 204) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 59). MCD.

Announcement from the Or Ḥadashi association addressing a friend in Jerusalem to participate in the commemoration of the day of "outbreak of hardship on Shabbat" and the services that are required for it and desired for particiption – 1938CE – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 207) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 39). MCD.

Bill of exchange in the amount of 120 qirsh owed to Kẖawaja Mūsa Abū Hārūn – 25 October 1915CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 211) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 68). This is likely the same man Kẖawaja Mūsa Abū Hārūn named in MIAC 223. MCD.

Letter from the Babylonian community of Jerusalem to Isḥak Mordechai tasked with recovering "Ya'ir Nērū" in Egypt – June 26 1930CE – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 212) – in Judeo-Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 45). MCD.

Personal letter from Jerusalem to Cairo – 28 May 1930 – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 212) in Judeo-Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 50). MCD.

Appeal in which Elli Mosseri seeks reconciliation with his wife and the cancellation of the court ruling for the payment of a monthly amount of one hundred qirsh – 23 August 1939CE – (number 213) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 52). MCD.

Announcement from the Cairo Jewish community and by the rabbinate that all the wine sold by the company "Curiel Oriental" is not kosher, and an announcement on the slaughter of poultry on the eve of the holiday – May 10 1953CE – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 219) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 40). MCD.

Announcement written in Yiddish from the committee of Ashkenazi Jewish synagogues of Cairo about the reservation of places in the main synagogue and urging those who have not reserved that it is required without a lease and for the late-comers to reserve their places by noon on Sunday October 2 1921CE – undated, but before October 1921CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 221) in Yiddish and French. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 37). MCD.

Letter to a doctor of general clinic under the supervision of the Agudat Israel explaining that the treatment of the patient will be completed with the required payment of 230 qirsh – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 222) – 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, 76). MCD.