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Solomon ben Semah

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Solomon ben Semah, also known as Abu Bishr Sulayman ben Semah, was a Jewish scribe who lived in Ramla during the 11th-century. He held a position at a talmudical academy. Fragments of his letters to distant Jewish communities were discovered in the Cairo genizah, most of them dealing with public affairs. One of them described the earthquake at Ramla in 1033.[1]

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  1. ^ Elinoar Bareket (1999). Fustat on the Nile: the Jewish elite in medieval Egypt. BRILL. p. 148. ISBN 978-90-04-11439-5. Retrieved 1 May 2011.