A genizah (/ɡɛˈniːzə/; Hebrew: גניזה, lit. 'storage', also geniza; plural: genizot[h] or genizahs) is a storage area in a Jewish synagogue or cemetery...
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Cairo Geniza (redirect from Cairo Genizah)
Cairo Genizah, is a collection of some 400,000 Jewish manuscript fragments and Fatimid administrative documents that were kept in the genizah or storeroom...
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Afghan Geniza (redirect from Afghan Genizah)
The Afghan Geniza (or Genizah) is a collection of hundreds of Jewish manuscript fragments found in a genizah in the caves of Afghanistan. The manuscripts...
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dates from the 11th century CE. Historically, synagogues have included a genizah, or repository for abandoned or outdated documents containing the name...
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The Schechter Letter, also called the Genizah Letter or Cambridge Document, was discovered in the Cairo Geniza by Solomon Schechter in 1912. It is an...
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Genizah manuscripts - images, identifications, catalogs, copies, joins, and bibliographic references. At the end of the nineteenth century, a genizah...
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original on 5 June 2008. Retrieved 4 May 2010. Gregersen (1977:237) "Cairo Genizah : Philosophy". Cambridge Digital Library. Retrieved 17 June 2023. Ferguson...
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a cavity in the floor of its apse, which almost certainly served as a genizah, was uncovered; an Ark for the Torah Scrolls stood above it. The central...
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MAIMONIDES)". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. "Cairo Genizah : Philosophy". For example, Joseph Telushkin noted that "Thomas Aquinas...
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superintending the Arab workmen. Archibald Henry Sayce Cairo Geniza and Genizah D'Hulst, R., 'The Arab House of Egypt', Royal Institute of British Architects...
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