Books & the Arts June 1, 2011 From Cairo to Córdoba: The Story of the Cairo Geniza Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole’s Sacred Trash offers a precious meditation on how the discovery of hidden hoards ...

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 ...

9th century, meet 21st: Supercomputer revolutionizes Cairo Geniza research When complete on June 25, a computation project in Tel Aviv will have matched thousands of fragments from the famed ...

For example, the Cairo Geniza in Egypt, explored during the mid-1800s, contained priceless historical artifacts, including manuscript fragments that were hundreds of years old.

The Jewish Theological Seminary of America's renowned Geniza Collection will be housed temporarily in the Princeton University Library while JTS, located in New York City, rebuilds its library. The ...

Schechter, having developed a good relationship with the chief rabbi of Cairo, was given permission to enter the Geniza and take what he wanted. Working under difficult conditions, he selected ...

In the 2018 award-winning documentary “From Cairo to the Cloud: The World of the Cairo Geniza,” filmmaker Michelle Paymar tells the story of these ancient documents and how they were ...

The Cairo Geniza was the archive of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat, a suburb of Cairo until it was swallowed by the Egyptian capital’s urban sprawl.

The fascinating tale of deciphering the Geniza documents, fragment by fragment, word by word, and character by character.

The Cairo Genizah is an irreplaceable repository for information about 1,000 years of human history. But the 350,000 fragments that make up the Genizah are scattered worldwide. Researchers are now ...