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Cali, wife of Gaudio di Aram: Palermo, 1442
In her will, Cali names her married daughter Sippora as her universal heir, and and leaves gifts of clothing to another married daughter, Charistella, and to Charistella's daughter Baxeba. She also leaves money for a poor girl's dowry. Sippora's…
Oro, wife of Samuel Rimok: Monzón, 1463
Oro, the wife of a scion of a well-known family, dictates a long Hebrew will in early summer of 1463 when is she healthy, as she says, in both body and mind. The introductory materials have Oro insisting that, in the bad times in which she lives, no…
Baladre, widow of Yaakov ben Haninai: Girona, 1325
This will is part of the so-called "Girona Geniza," which is a collection of Hebrew documents which were preserved because they were reused as book bindings. Baladre's will was part of the binding of a notarial register belonging to the notary…
Wuhsha the Broker: Fustat, c. 1100
This is the will of the famed Jewish businesswoman known as "Wuhsha the Broker" (Wuhsha al-Dallala), whose given name was Karima. Although it is not dated, the informal document was written in the hand of the cantor and court clerk Hillel ben Eli,…