A scrap of 900-year-old paper – part of Cambridge’s Cairo Genizah collection of more than 200,000 fragments of writing chronicling life over 1,000 years in Egypt and the Middle East – has been ...

The LJCC will use the data to place restored markers more accurately; locate genizah sites, which are buried religious texts no longer in use; and potentially locate unmarked graves. The LJCC will ...

In his new role, Koller wants to promote the study of Hebrew texts over the thousands of years between the Hebrew Bible and the modern state of Israel, drawing on Cambridge’s rich trove of manuscripts ...

Though it was largely outside the public’s view, the Cairo Genizah, a vast collection of more than 400,000 Jewish manuscripts dating from the 5th century to the 19th century, is now available to the ...

and letters discovered in a genizah—a synagogue repository for sacred texts no longer in use. “The exhibition of ‘The Golden Age of the Jews of Al-Andalus’ is profoundly relevant because it highlights ...

Hati zilizo chakaa zilihifadhiwa katika ghala ngogo kwenye sinagigi lililoitwa genizah,ambalo ni neno la kiebrania,linalo maanisha maficho.(The manuscript were careful placed in a small storehouse ...

According to thousand-year-old documents found in the Cairo Genizah, business documents linking Jewish traders across the Arab world would have Jewish court decisions written on the back. So Jews ...

The Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection at the UL is the largest and most important single collection of mediaeval Jewish manuscripts in the world, built up over 1000 years in the genizah (a ...

Abstract: A join is a set of manuscript-fragments that are known to originate from the same original work. The Cairo Genizah is a collection containing approximately 250,000 fragments of mainly Jewish ...

The Cairo Genizah This video from the PBS series The Story of the Jews examines how the age-old Jewish custom of saving sacred texts that contain God’s name created the single most complete ...

However, it was later sold in 882 AD to the Jewish community. Today, the Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection at Cambridge, the largest and most important collection of medieval Jewish ...

When Torah scrolls and other sacred texts are damaged in a way that cannot be repaired, they must be placed in a "genizah." Torah scrolls being moved from the Western Wall to genizah. (photo ...