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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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  • There are number of former synagogues in Cairo, the capital city of Egypt. The number of Egyptian Jews in the city has decreased significantly from its...
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  • (641-1517). American Univ in Cairo Press. pp. 44–45. ISBN 978-977-416-093-6. Goitein, S. D. (1960). "The Documents of the Cairo Geniza as a Source for Mediterranean...
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    variant readings of that targum. The Cairo Geniza Fragment Targums originate from the Ben Ezra Synagogue's genizah in Cairo. They share similarities with the...
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    Jews of Greece and the Balkans. However, the documents discovered in Cairo Geniza reveal that the influence of Minhag Eretz Israel on Benè Romì is less...
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    form of a letter sent from Safed, Israel, to Italy in 1535. In it, David del Rossi claimed that a Tripolitan Jewish merchant had told him the India town...
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    the Crusades, according to the Cairo Geniza documents. A document dated 996 mentions Amalfian merchants living in Cairo. Another letter states that the...
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    explorations of his religious motivations for his aliyah, preserved in the Cairo geniza. Some contain imaginary details of the voyage, such as descriptions of...
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    the Crusades, according to the Cairo Geniza documents. A document dated 996 mentions Amalfian merchants living in Cairo. Another letter states that the...
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    photographs of the scrolls. Ancient Hebrew writings Book of Mysteries Cairo Geniza Jordan Lead Codices Ketef Hinnom scrolls (7th/6th century BCE), oldest...
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