Cairo Geniza
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The Cairo Geniza, alternatively spelled the Cairo Genizah, is a collection of some 400,000 Jewish manuscript fragments and Fatimid administrative documents that were kept in the genizah or storeroom o
A document with Babylonian vocalization
The latest Ben Ezra Synagogue, rebuilt between 1889 and 1892
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
Genizah
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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.
Cairo Geniza
…spelled the Cairo 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…
A genizah at the Narkeldanga Cemetery, in Kolkata, India.
Containers for paper recycling (left) and genizah (right) in Ramat Gan
Modern genizah collection receptacle in Israel. The small opening at the front is for disposal of worn-out tefillin and mezuzot.