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Manasseh bar Yafet and Jacob ha-Kohen ben Yeshu‘a
11th Century
Nothing is known about Manasseh bar Yefet or Jacob ha-Kohen ben Yeshu‘a, who may have held important communal roles in Alexandria.
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Court Testimony (Alexandria)
The three of us sitting together, we formed a court of law, we the undersigned, and the following happened: Mar Muvḥar ha-zaken [“the elder”] ben Mar Tsedakah came before us, and said to us:
“I was…