The Jews of Cairo and the Modern Egyptian Community

In Cairo and Alexandria, a cosmopolitan community of Rabbanites, Karaites and European Jews flourished under the Khedivate and the British protectorate. Bankers, merchants and intellectuals (the Cattaoui, Mosseri and Suarès families) shaped economic and cultural life. After 1948 and the 1956 Suez crisis, nearly all of this community was forced into exile.