Chief Rabbi Haim Nahum with first president of Egypt's republic Mohamed Naguib; the Abbasiya synagogue

Haim Nahum's funeral in the Synagogue on Adly Street attended by Egyptian public figures

The bi-monthly Al-Kalim newspaper published by the young Karaite Jewish Assoication from 1945 to 1956; Al-Shams weekly Jewish newspaper published from 1934 to 1948

Anticlockwise from bottom right: 1967 photo by Antoune Albert of Leon Jacques Hassoun with two Jewish ladies at 'Atfet El-Yahoud El-Karraiine' off Azhar Street, the old Jewish quarter; a 1940s photo members of the Egyptian Jewish community
at the Maimonides Synagogue with Rabbi Nahum and Cattaui Pasha in the centre

Cattaui Pasha, president of the Sephardi Jewish Community of Cairo from 1924 to 1942; Isaac Levi, secretary general of the Egyptian Federation of Industries and vice president of the Community; wedding portrait of Lucette Lagnado's parents; and today's Harat Al-Yahud

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