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    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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    The Cairo Geniza, alternatively spelled the Cairo Genizah, is a collection of some 400,000 Jewish manuscript fragments and Fatimid administrative documents...
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    Genizah (redirect from Geniza)
    so-called Afghan Geniza, an 11th-century collection of manuscript fragments in Hebrew, Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic and Judeo-Persian, was found in Afghanistan, in...
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    of Nader Shah settled in Kabul as his treasury guards. In 2011, the Afghan Geniza, an 11th-century collection of Jewish manuscript fragments that was...
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    ancient documents, religious or secular, in Jewish synagogues Afghan Geniza Cairo Geniza Dunhuang manuscripts, a similar cache of ancient documents, in...
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    games (the Dunhuang Go Classic) Afghan Geniza, similar cache of ancient religious and secular documents Cairo Geniza, similar cache of ancient religious...
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    dedicated to the muses. Afghan Geniza – collection of Jewish papyri fragments found in Afghanistan Ancient Greek literature Cairo Geniza – similar cache of...
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    Elephantine community Blacas papyri Afghan Geniza, similar cache of ancient religious and secular documents Cairo Geniza, similar cache of ancient religious...
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  • the last quarter of the ninth century born in Balkh, Khorasan (modern Afghanistan). It is not entirely clear whether Hiwi was a Jew, as suggested by Schechter...
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  • number of rabbis, such as David Bar-Hayim based on fragments from the Cairo Geniza say only 12 blessings here. On fast days in the times of the Talmud there...
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