Minya (Al-Minya)
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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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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.
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Sources & resources
- Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
- Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World — Brill
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