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Scholar Dario Miccoli introduces three Egyptian Jewish poets who wrote in French between the world wars, and the multicultural Cairo their work reflects.

Cairo’s Bassatine cemetery, a Jewish burial ground dating to the ninth century and one of the oldest in the world, reopened in 2022 after a three year restoration.

Historian Renée Levine Melammed draws on the Cairo Genizah to show how Jewish women in medieval Egypt worked, wrote letters, went to court, and shaped their families and communities.

Cambridge University Library’s digital archive of the Cairo Genizah, the largest collection of medieval Jewish manuscripts in the world, brings a thousand years of Jewish life in Egypt online.

Lyn Julius documents how Egypt expelled and dispossessed its Jewish community after the 1956 Suez crisis, when an estimated 23,000 to 25,000 Jews were forced to leave within two years.

Author Jean Naggar traces Egyptian Jewish life from the Cairo Genizah to the 1956 expulsions through the memoirs, novels, and cookbooks it inspired.

The full text of the 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, whose Article VIII calls for a commission to settle financial claims between the two countries.

Princeton scholar Eve Krakowski uses documents from the Cairo Genizah to reexamine a decree attributed to Maimonides on mikvah observance among the women of medieval Egypt.

Rabbi Albert Gabbai recalls spending Passover in an Egyptian prison cell in the 1960s, when Nasser’s government jailed hundreds of Cairo’s Jews.

Menachem Ben-Sasson describes how Jewish life in North Africa and Egypt declined in the 12th and 13th centuries under Almohad and Mamluk rule.

Justice for Jews from Arab Countries traces the history of Egypt’s Jewish community and documents the property Egyptian Jews lost when they were forced to leave, estimated at $59.8 billion in today’s dollars.