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'Wisdom and Greatness in one Place': The Alexandrian Trader Moses ben Judah and his Circle

The manuscript collections of the Bodleian Library contain a corpus of dozens of documents from the archive of Moses ben Judah. A leader of the Jewish community in Alexandria, he was also a prominent businessman and in contact with individuals from Cairo to Sicily. This collection of documents at the Bodleian likely did not emerge from the Cairo Genizah, but from another depository, and appears to have been buried at some point. ...

Keywords:: JFSR1, HIS037010, BJ, Moses ben Judah, Late Middle Ages, LCO011000, HBLC1, FOR011000, FOR002000, 2CSJ, Judaeo-Arabic, Archival material, 2CSR, Mediterranean trade, HMC, Egyptian Jewry in the late Mamluk period

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Humanities / Jewish Studies / Jewish history / Middle Ages

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Material Type:: Open (Access) Textbook
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 22, 2025
Date Modified in MERLOT:: July 22, 2025
Authors:: Dotan Arad, Bar-Ilan University
Esther-Miriam Wagner, Woolf Institute
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