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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.

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.

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.

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.

Letter – 1882CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 67) – in Judaeo-Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 55). MCD.

Letter dealing with religious matters – circa 1912CE – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 69) – in Judeo-Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 39). MCD.

Request presented by the president of the religious school in Jerusalem to the director of one of the synagogues in Egypt asking especially for monetary assistance for the religious school – April 1930CE – Museum of Islamic Art (number 7) – in Judeo-Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa. ed. Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 29). MCD.

Letter issued by the Grand Rabbinate of Cairo – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 75) – 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.

Letter reporting the date of one of the brother's arrival from traveling to Alexandria – 1924CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 76) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 58). MCD.

Letter issued by a merchant in al-Mūskī in Cairo – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 76) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 74). MCD.

Letter from the Grand Rabbinate of Cairo to Kẖawaja Elli Abimalor and Kẖawaja Shlomo Lijar requesting that they not give away any of the contents from the synagogue without written permission that has been recorded by the synagogue administration – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 79) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 33). MCD.

Letter of thanks from a son to his father thanking him for his assistance and understanding and his cousins for assisting their aunt – 1947CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 80) – 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.

Letter requesting that a friend of the sender's brother-in-law pick up his first marital document for him – 10 December 1947CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 81) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 58). MCD.

Letter signed by a rabbi and scholar of the Jewish community in Cairo – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 85) in Judeo-Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 55). MCD.

Announcement from the Cairo Jewish community for a celebration at the Vitali Madjar Synagogue in Heliopolis – on the occasion of celebrating in the Jewish synagogue (Lāḥ Lūmbū) – May 12 1960CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 9) – in French. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 37). MCD.

Invitation for attending a gathering at Abu al-Sabāʿ Street in Cairo, and on the page there is a letter between friends in Hebrew – July 1928CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 91) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 51). MCD.

Invitation from the Jewish community for attending a religious ceremony at the Green School on Saqaliba Street in the Jewish quarter – 1910CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 92) – 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, 35). MCD.

Invitation from the association "ha-Fāmt Keter Torah" for attending the tefillin ceremony of fifteen students – 5 March 1939CE – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 92) – in Hebrew (recto) and French (verso). (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 45). MCD.

Invitation for attending a public and routine meeting of the Yeshiva Ahava VeAhva Sunday 28 March 1948CE – 1 March 1948CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 93) – in Arabic and French. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 59). A scan of this document appears in Al-Janiza wa-l-maʿābid al-Yahūdiyya fī Miṣr (p.180) where the names of the President and Secretary of the Yeshiva Ahava VeAhva, Harūn Choueka and David ʿAjamī, appear at the bottom of two columns of bilingual French–Arabic text. The heading also provides the location of the Yeshiva at Meydān al-Ẓāhir in Cairo. The scheduled objectives of the meeting are report on the administration, a report from the head instructor, a committee election, and an election for head instructor. MCD.

Personal letter from a Jew residing in Jerusalem to Mr. David ʿAntabi in Cairo referencing his daughter's ketubbah – c. 1900 – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 95) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 51). MCD.