Region: Égypte (Delta oriental)
Intersection register · custodian, not owner
A town in the eastern Egyptian Delta on the route between Egypt and Palestine, Bilbeis is documented in the Cairo Geniza as a place of Jewish presence in the Middle Ages. It served as a stopping point for Jewish travelers and merchants between Fustat and the Holy Land.
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The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Bilbeis give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Sources & resources
- Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
- Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World — Brill
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