RRR: Correspondence/envoy
2281
year: 1236
initiator: A Jewish merchant
text: Nov. 30. Tiberias. A Jewish merchant, having rented an apartment in Tiberias, reports to a relative in Egypt that he has persuaded a [Latin] official in Jerusalem to permit Jews to pilgrimage to the city and to allow a Jewish dyer, who had already settled there, to reside in it.
Nov. 30. Tiberias. A Jewish merchant, having rented an apartment in Tiberias, reports to a relative in Egypt that he has persuaded a [Latin] official in Jerusalem to permit Jews to pilgrimage to the city and to allow a Jewish dyer, who had already settled there, to reside in it.
sources: Goitein, Palestinian Jewry, pp. 300 – 302 [Judeo-Arabic text and modern Hebrew translation]; Goitein, ‘Geniza Sources’, pp. 320-321 [English translation]. Summarized by Benjamin Kedar