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IntersectionLieuMoyen Âge–XIXe siècle

Region: Égypte (Haute-Égypte)

Intersection register · custodian, not owner

A city in Upper Egypt on the Nile, Al-Minya is mentioned in several documents from the Cairo Genizah attesting to a Jewish presence in the Middle Ages. A small community still existed in the nineteenth century, active in local trade.

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The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Minya (Al-Minya) 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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