Ketah Ha’tephilah Shene’emrah Lephnei Hechal Hashem Be’oloth Ha’minchah... [Prayers recited by the Jews of Cairo on the day of public fasting and prayer for their opressed brethren in Russia]

(EGYPT).

6th Kislev

Cairo

1906

Sephardic square and Rabbinic Hebrew script. Black ink on headed paper

Prayers and supplications read at the Radba”z Synagogue in Cairo, Egypt on the day of public fasting and prayer called on the 6th of Kislev, 1906 in response to the murder of Jews in Russia. The waive of violent and bloody pogroms that swept the Pale of Settlement during the years 1903-6, stimulated a great nationalist awakening among the Jews of Europe. The most serious pogroms of the period were those in Kishinev and Odessa which claimed over 300 fatalities. It is interesting that Jews beyond the Europe were equally appalled by the outrages committed in Russia