Mitzraim: Tales and Families of Royal Egyptian Jews

Author's name: Medhat Abdel Razek

Everything around us pushes us to treat Jews as the eternal enemy. At some point, we discover that Jews were part of the fabric of Egyptian society. But the attempt to search for the reality of the community is met with obstacles, the most prominent of which is the sensitivity of the subject and the decline of the Jewish presence against the backdrop of the Arab-Israeli conflict. We continue to wonder passionately about that folded page of the nation's identity: the Jews of Egypt, their relationship to its land, their departure from it, their belonging to it as their original and natural homeland.

As is the custom of history in its aristocracy and its interest in those who influence its movement, the following pages came to tell us stories and tales about (Jewish families) that flourished, gave, took, lived, interacted, were confined, and then disappeared. In each family there are personalities and lives calling us to reveal them after long decades of obliteration, and we have answered the call in the hope of fulfilling it.