Kievan Letter
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kievan-letter-170-864401
title:
Kievan Letter
text:
The Kievan Letter, or Kyivan letter is an early 10th-century letter thought to be written by representatives of the Jewish community in Kiev. The letter, a Hebrew-language recommendation written on behalf of one member of their community, was part of an enormous collection brought to Cambridge by Solomon Schechter from the Cairo Geniza. It was discovered in 1962 during a survey of the Geniza documents by Norman Golb of the University of Chicago. The letter is dated by most scholars to around 930
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description:
c. 930 CE Hebrew-language letter; first mention of Kiev (Kyiv)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Letter
date created:
2004-12-21T16:07:13Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T20:20:59Z
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