- A
genizah (/
ɡɛˈniːzə/; Hebrew: גניזה, lit. 'storage', also
geniza; plural: genizot[h] or genizahs) is a
storage area in a
Jewish synagogue or cemetery...
- The
Cairo Geniza,
alternatively spelled the
Cairo Genizah, is a
collection of some 400,000
Jewish m****cript
fragments and
Fatimid administrative do****ents...
- The
Afghan Geniza (or Genizah) is a
collection of
hundreds of
Jewish m****cript
fragments found in a
genizah in the
caves of Afghanistan. The m****cripts...
- The
Friedberg Geniza Project (FGP) is a
digital preservation project, one of the
primary goals of
which is to
computerize the
entire world of
Cairo Genizah...
- בית כנסת בן עזרא; Arabic: معبد بن عزرا),
sometimes referred to as the El-
Geniza Synagogue (Hebrew: בית כנסת אל גניזה) or the
Synagogue of the Levantines...
-
Cairo Geniza, as well as the
first to
publicize the
existence of the
Midrash ha-Gadol.
Schechter was
alerted to the
existence of the
Geniza's papers...
- city-states like
Amalfi and
Genoa before the Crusades,
according to the
Cairo Geniza do****ents. A do****ent
dated 996
mentions Amalfian merchants living in Cairo...
-
Quire (ALQ), also
known as the
Afghan Siddur, is a
quire from the
Afghan Geniza in Bamyan, Afghanistan. It is the
oldest Hebrew book ever discovered, and...
- of the
press is
known solely from two
fragments discovered in the
Cairo Geniza.
Under the Ottomans,
Cairo expanded south and west from its
nucleus around...
- on
Jewish life in the
Islamic Middle Ages, and
particularly on the
Cairo Geniza.
Shelomo Dov (Fritz)
Goitein was born in the town of
Burgkunstadt in Upper...
