The Cairo Geniza, alternatively spelled Genizah, is a collection of some 400,000 Jewish manuscript fragments and Fatimid administrative documents that were kept in the genizah or storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat or Old Cairo, Egypt. These manuscripts span the entire period of Middle-Eastern, North African, and Andalusian Jewish history between the 6th and 19th centuries CE, and comprise the largest and most diverse collection of medieval manuscripts in the world.
A document with Babylonian vocalization
Solomon Schechter at work in Cambridge University Library, studying the fragments of the Cairo Genizah, c. 1898
A letter signed by Abraham, the son of Maimonides
The Ben Ezra Synagogue
A genizah is a storage area in a Jewish synagogue or cemetery designated for the temporary storage of worn-out Hebrew-language books and papers on religious topics prior to proper cemetery burial.
A genizah at the Narkeldanga Cemetery, in Kolkata, India.
A possible geniza at Masada, eastern Israel
Modern genizah collection receptacle on street in Nachlaot, Jerusalem