<p>The transition from an Ottoman imperial order to a post-Ottoman, nationalist, one, imposed a reality of both dispersal and entrenchment on the Jewish community in Egypt. This article analyzes the effects of this historical reality on the different kinds of archives that Jewish Egyptians have produced. It investigates the creation, description, and usage contexts of those archives with the greatest potential for research contribution about this community, highlighting the history and politics of their creation and usage, and their significance. Building on an expanded meaning of archives, it also explores the (re)creation, description, and usage contexts of Jewish heritage sites in Egypt and its diaspora, considering that some archives double as heritage sites, and some heritage sites are planned to offer archives, or can be studied as archives.</p>