Statement

None of this means a community like medieval Cairo knew no tension. The Judeo-Arabic letters of the Genizah minted the word sinut (Hebraic in origin, missing from scripture and Talmudic literature), to denote anti-Jewish hatred. Maimonides, a respected court physician who headed Egypt's Jewish community, observed darkly in a letter to the Jews of Yemen that God had cast them into the midst of the nation of Ishmael, which persecutes them severely and devises ways to harm and debase them. Jews of the Genizah era, then, knew good times and bad.

Ancient witnesses mentioned by the sourceCarta de Maimônides aos judeus do Iêmen

References

1. p. 179

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   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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2. p. 179

   supports · main text · ch. 6

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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3. p. 179

   supports · main text · ch. 6

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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