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Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will recount it to thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. (Deuteronomy 32:7)
This organization shall be known as HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF JEWS FROM EGYPT, and not of Egypt or of Egyptian Jews, but FROM EGYPT
Karaites
The Karaite Jews of Jews
Mourad El-Kodsi was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1919. He earned a Bachelors Degree in History from the University of Cairo, in 1942, and a Masters Degree in Education from The University of Rochester, in 1963.
In Cairo he was a teacher and principal in both the Karaite Jewish School and Les Ecoles de la Communauté Juive du Caire from 1942 to 1959.
As a member of the Karaite community in Cairo El-Kodsi served as the Secretary of the Karaite Religious Council and as chairperson of several of its commit-tees.
In 1959 he immigrated to the United States. He taught French in Brighton Central Schools, and Arabic classes in both the University of Rochester and St. John Fisher College. In 1987 he published the first edition of “The Karaite Jews of Egypt from 1882-1986.” In 1993 he published “The Karaite Communities in Poland, Lithuania, Russia and Crimea.” In 2002 he published “Just for the Records in the History of the Karaite Jews in Egypt in Modem Times.” In 2004 he published an article entitled “A History of Two of Ben Asher Codices.”
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