It is one of the 11,000 manuscript fragments held at The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library – rescued from a 1000-year old storeroom – or Genizah – at the Ben Ezra synagogue in Cairo. The ...

The Genizah first came to the attention of European scholars in the late 19th century, when visitors to Egypt began returning with bits and pieces of the collection, said Dr Melonie Schmierer-Lee ...

Series focusing on the Cairo Genizah - a collection of documents from the synagogue in Old Cairo that is thought to be one of the most signficant bodies of medieval texts being researched today ...