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JACQUES (1884-1934), Nissim's third son, studied languages at Cambridge and later secured permission for Solomon Schechter to investigate the Cairo Genizah. Jacques himself collected genizah fragments. A delegate of Egyptian Jewry to the 11th Zionist Congress (1913), he founded the Zionist Organization in Egypt in 1917.
Rachel Bril was first married to Jack Mosseri and after his death she married Louis Marlio, which is why my father Gerard and my uncle Claude have a double last name, as do my brothers and myself. My uncle Lionel died in WWII before going through the administrative steps to add Marlio so he died as Lionel Mosseri.1563
in a hunt for undiscovered Genizah manuscripts, Jacques Mosseri, a successful businessman and native of Cairo, began exploring the synagogues of Fustat and the Jewish Bassatine cemetery. A pioneer of modern education in the Jewish schools of Cairo and keen to promote Jewish heritage, Mosseri (with the encouragment of his friend, the French scholar, Israel Lévi), was eager to see what, if any, manuscripts remained in Old Cairo.
Mosseri and his associate Captain Raymond Weill (who later excavated the Siloam Channel IV in Jerusalem) soon discovered that papers did still exist in the area even after Solomon Schechter's famous exploits in 1897. They moved the manuscripts they located in the Ben Ezra synagogue to a "safer place" in order to evaluate them.
The recovery of these valuable papers prompted further expeditions in the area between 1910 and 1912. Mosseri and Weill were assisted in their quest by the American scholar of semitics, Richard Gottheil, and by the French librarian and scholar, Bernard Chapira of the Société des ?tudes Juives. Some material was discovered at the Bassatine cemetery but, with the help of various local officials, excavations conducted around the precincts of the Ben Ezra synagogue proved very fruitful. The manuscripts that Mosseri unearthed there had probably been buried in the 1890s during the reconstruction of the synagogue when the Genizah chamber was emptied of its contents.
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MOSSERI
Isaac (Di Salomon)
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