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Egypt

Egypt (Mitzrayim) is central to the Torah's narrative of the Israelites: Abraham sojourned there during a famine, Joseph rose to power there, and the descendants of Jacob were enslaved before the Exodus under Moses. In later centuries Egypt -- and especially Alexandria and, in the medieval period, Fustat (Old Cairo) -- was home to major Jewish communities; Maimonides served there as nagid in the twelfth century.

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