Books & the Arts June 1, 2011 From Cairo to Córdoba: The Story of the Cairo Geniza Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole’s Sacred Trash offers a precious meditation on how the discovery of hidden hoards ...

Mysterious trilingual Cairo Geniza vocab list found to be penned by Maimonides Housed at Cambridge University’s Genizah Research Unit, crib sheet with words in Hebrew, Arabic and a Romance ...

Documentary unravels history — and digital future — of mysterious Cairo Geniza Film includes interviews with 40 experts who chart the strange discovery and continued scholarship of the mass of ...

The Cairo Geniza, goes this argument, is actually the more important find, since the sensational, ancient scriptures from Qumran were — as most scholars have seen them — a cultic aberration ...

Computer scientists at Tel Aviv University are using artificial intelligence to gather the fragments of the world’s largest collection of medieval documents, the legendary Cairo Genizah, to tell ...

For example, the Cairo Geniza in Egypt, explored during the mid-1800s, contained priceless historical artifacts, including manuscript fragments that were hundreds of years old.

The Cairo Genizah is an irreplaceable repository for information about 1,000 years of human history. But the 350,000 fragments that make up the Genizah are scattered worldwide. Researchers are now ...

The Cairo Geniza was the archive of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat, a suburb of Cairo until it was swallowed by the Egyptian capital’s urban sprawl.

Husband and wife team Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole, authors of “Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza” (Schocken/Nextbook: $26.95), share far more than a marriage -- they ...

The Cairo Genizah is an irreplaceable repository for information about 1,000 years of human history. But the 350,000 fragments that make up the Genizah are scattered worldwide. Professors Lior ...