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פיום

Region: Égypte (oasis du Fayoum)

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An oasis fed by a natural lake, the Fayoum counted among the most important Egyptian sites for Jewish history in Antiquity. Numerous Greek and Aramaic papyri attest to a Jewish community from the Ptolemaic period, and the Cairo Genizah documents its medieval continuity.

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The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Faiyoum (Al-Fayyum) give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day

Sources & resources

  • Encyclopaedia Judaica2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
  • Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic WorldBrill

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