Author Event: Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo, by Yoram Meital

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Hosted by Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, David Patterson Lectures

Historian Yoram Meital interprets Cairo’s synagogues as exquisite storytellers. Meital contends that studying the congregations and the social services provided in synagogues sheds new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the present.

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