The library of the Alliance has provided a multitude of documents for the exhibition "Jews of the East, a multi-millennial history", hosted by the Institute du Monde Arabe. You will find them attached at the IMA until March 13., 2022 and in the following collection.
Documents lend by the library of the Alliance Israélite Universelle:
7 Fragments of the Guenizah of Cairo
- Commentaire de la Mishneh Torah, autographe de Maïmonide, XIIe siècle (IIIB161)
- Souvenir de pèlerinage en Terre Sainte, 1780-1800 (VIIIE79)
- Deux feuillets du Siracide, XIIe-XIIe s. (ID1 et ID2)
- Lettre au nom d’un médecin juif, XIVe s. ( ?) (VIIE119)
- Poème en arabe, XIIe-XIVe s. (XII 66)
- Certificat de fiançailles karaïte entre Fadia, fille d’Abraham, et Mahfuz ben Menahem, XIVe s. ? (VIID1)
- Lettre de Bundar II b. Hassan à ‘Allan b. Hassun : commerce avec Aden, around 100 (VIIE35)
2 Printed books from the 16th century
- Shulkhan Arukh de Joseph Caro, Venise, 1567 (H4101A)
- Sepher Ha-Zohar, Mantoue, 1558, volume 1 (NAHMIASH71_1)
8 Pictures of the Alliance schools
- Charity, Casablanca 1907.
- The teachers Miss Ines Soueri and Miss Regine Arias, Cairo, 1922
- Meeting with the Director of Public Instruction of Syria, Aleppo (Syria), 1923
- Apprentices, Tunis, 1901
- King Faisal's visit to the school, Basra (Iraq), 1928
- Girls' school at its beginning, Baghdad, 1900
- Award ceremony at school, Tetouan (Morocco), 1951
- The teachers, Beirut, 1909
2 Francophone newspapers published in the arab world (digitizations)
- La revue sioniste (Le Caire, 1ère année, n° 10, 15 août 1922)
- La semaine juive (Tunis, No. 37, 3 November 1938)
2 Participation in films
- From Cairo to the Cloud, Michelle Paymar, 2018
- Juifs et Musulmans, Karem Miské, 2013