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Lot #    24139
Auction End Date    7/7/2009 12:09:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Israel of Na Amon
Title (Hebrew)    ëúá îä'ø éùøàì îðà àîåï
Author    [Ms.]
City    Alexandria
Publication Date    1828?
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 210:150 mm., light age staining, creased and split on fold, ink on paper, Sephardic script, signed, and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    Letter by R. Raphael(?) Israel of Na Amon (Alexandria). The historian Sambari (17th century) mentions among the rabbis of Alexandria at the end of the 16th century Moses b. Sason, Joseph Sagish, and Baruch b. Habib. With the spread of the plague in 1602 most of the Jews left and did not return. After the Cossack persecutions of 1648–49 some refugees from the Ukraine settled in Alexandria. During the 1660s the rabbi of the city was Joshua of Mantua, who became an ardent follower of Shabbetai Zevi. In 1700 Jewish fishermen from Rosetta (Rashīd) moved to Alexandria and formed a Jewish quarter near the seashore, and in the second half of the 18th century more groups of fishermen from Rosetta, Damietta, and Cairo joined them; this Jewish quarter was destroyed by an earthquake. At the end of the 18th century the community was very small and it suffered greatly during the French conquest. Napoleon imposed heavy fines on the Jews and ordered the ancient synagogue, associated with the prophet Elijah, to be destroyed. In the first half of the 19th century under the rule of Muhammad ‘Ali there was a new period of prosperity. The development of commerce brought great wealth to the Jews, as to the other merchants in the town; the community was reorganized and established schools, hospitals, and various associations. From 1871 to 1878 the Jewry of Alexandria was divided and existed as two separate communities. Among the rabbis of Alexandria in modern times were the descendants of the Israel family from Rhodes: Elijah, Moses, and Jedidiah Israel (served 1802–30), and Solomon Hazzan (1830–56), Moses Israel Hazzan (1856–63), and Bekhor Elijah Hazzan (1888–1908).
          
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Egypt
  
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica