Data is based on researchers finding documentary sources from the Cairo Geniza or related caches of documents and adding them to the database with descriptions.

For many years, I’ve stood with members of my congregation in our cemetery — not to bury a person, but to bury books. There are no eulogies. We lower tattered prayer books, weathered bibles, Passover ...

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 texts ...

Cairo Geniza are about 400,000 Jewish manuscript fragments and Fatimid administrative documents that were kept in the genizah or storeroom of the synagogue.

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 archive of a society ...

The Cairo Geniza contained 400,000 separate items. I have a tenuous connection with the Cairo Geniza, because one fragment, thought by some to be the oldest bit in the Geniza, is known as Halper 331.

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 ...

(RNS) — The 900-year-old scrap of paper was among the hundreds of thousands of fragments collected from the Cairo Genizah, a trove of Jewish writings held in a Cairo synagogue that collectively ...

Left: Arnold Saltzman, composer and librettist of ‘Geniza: Hidden Fragments’ (photo by Andrea Joseph); right: interior of Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo (the geniza is in the balcony). Solomon quickly ...

About 120 years ago, a cache of manuscripts, mostly fragments, was discovered in the storeroom of an old Cairo synagogue. Its members had deposited them there over many centuries. This collection of ...

The Centre’s research is currently focused on a number of themes including: Cultures, Societies and Languages of the Middle East; History and Politics of the Region; Engagement of European powers with ...