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Type: Letter
10477 records found
Small fragment in Ladino, probably from a letter.
Fragment in Ladino, probably from a business letter. Needs further examination.
Recto: Either the beginning of a letter or the address of a letter for Shelomo Gabbay in Safed. There is also a list of names. Verso: Accounts in western Arabic numerals.
Letter from Josiah (Yoshiyahu) Gaon, apparently to Efrayim b. Shemarya, ca. 1015.
Letter from the first half of the eleventh century which contains an appeal for help in ransoming captives. The letter is from the community of Alexandria to Efrayim b. Shemarya and the Palestinian congregation of Fustat. (Information from Frenkel)
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya, ca. 1028.
See join (PGPID 677).
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, apparently to Fustat, concerning a dispute in the community, ca. 1026.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham b. Mevasser, Fustat, approximately 1030.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Sahlan b. Avraham, Fustat, ca. 1046.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya, approximately 1048.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Shemuel Ha-Kohen b. Avtalyon concerning a trial that took place in Ramla ca. 1030.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda and nine other Jerusalemites confirming the receipt of ten dinars from Fustat, approximately 1030.
Letter from Shelomo ha-Kohen Gaon to Efrayim b. Shemarya, Fustat, 1025.
Letter fragment on behalf of the lepers of Tiberias to Efrayim b. Shemarya in Fustat.
Verso: Letter from Efrayim b. Shemarya to Natan b. Avraham. Dating: ca. 1034. Relates to the early stages of a conflict between Natan b. Avraham and Shelomo b. Yehuda. Efrayim b. Shemarya gives his support to Natan b. Avraham. Mentions regular correspondence between the writer and the addressee. Mentions a person who arrived from Babylonia, possibly Daniel b. ʿAzarya, who was elected to the Palestinian gaonate after Shelomo b. Yehuda. (Information from Bareket, The Jews of Egypt, p. 99.) On recto there is a document in Arabic script (see separate record).
Letter of Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya, 1030
Letter from Eliyyahu ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon, Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, Fustat, ca. 1055.
Letter from Shelomo ha-Kohen Gaon b. Yehosef to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat, spring 1025.
