Region: Libye (Fezzan, district de Sebha)
Intersection register · custodian, not owner
An oasis in the Libyan Fezzan and a major caravan stop, Sebha was home to Jewish merchants participating in trans-Saharan trade between Tripolitania and sub-Saharan Africa in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. The Jewish presence there was essentially commercial and seasonal.
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The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Sebha 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 Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
- Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World — Brill
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