The Cairo Geniza, alternatively spelled the Cairo Genizah, is a collection of some 400,000 Jewish manuscript fragments and Fatimid administrative documents...

press is known solely from two fragments discovered in the Cairo Geniza. Under the Ottomans, Cairo expanded south and west from its nucleus around the Citadel...

The Damascus Document is an ancient Hebrew text known from both the Cairo Geniza and the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is considered one of the foundational documents...

as the El-Geniza Synagogue (בית כנסת אל גניזה) or the Synagogue of the Levantines (al-Shamiyin), is situated in the Fustat part of Old Cairo, Egypt. According...

Synagogue in Cairo Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue in Alexandria Sha'ar Hashamayim Synagogue in Cairo Tomb of rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeira in Damanhur Cairo Geniza "Jews...

generally not accepted at face value by modern scholars. Documents in the Cairo Geniza provide evidence of a possible Jewish presence as early as the 6th century...

Franks honored their word and the group left by night for Ascalon." One Cairo Geniza letter also refers to some Jewish residents who left with the Fatimid...

research 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...

documents from the Cairo Geniza. From 1985 until his retirement in 2013, Cohen led the Princeton Geniza Lab, which aims to make the Cairo Geniza's corpus available...

the 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...

Correspondence, together with the Schechter Letter discovered in the Cairo Geniza and the famous plato nizing dialogue by Judah Halevi, Sefer ha-Kuzari...

important finding of documentary sources since the discovery of the Cairo Geniza more than 100 years prior. In 2013, the National Library of Israel announced...

Retrieved 2023-11-12. Nirenberg, David (2011-06-01). "From Cairo to Córdoba: The Story of the Cairo Geniza". ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2023-11-12. Rustow, Marina...

Her work focuses on the study of Judeo-Arabic documents found in the Cairo geniza and the history of Jews in the Fatimid Caliphate. A New York native,...

fragment of a manuscript written in Karamanlı was also found in the Cairo Geniza. Kamayim vurdum yere is a folk dance belonging to the Karamanlides &...

many more manuscripts have become available, in particular from the Cairo Geniza. The Academy of the Hebrew Language has prepared a text on CD-ROM for...

Jewish survivors. The Aleppo Codex website cites two letters in the Cairo Geniza that describe how the inhabitants of Ashkelon borrowed money from Egypt...

expulsion of Gabinus). The community of Gaza is also mentioned in the Cairo Geniza documents. The area of Gaza including the city of Rafah had a thriving...

A genizah (/ɡɛˈniːzə/; Hebrew: גניזה, lit. 'storage', also geniza; plural: genizot[h] or genizahs) is a storage area in a Jewish synagogue or cemetery...

Judeo-Arabic documents from the 6th-19th centuries was found in the Cairo Geniza. The movie Farewell Baghdad would be released in 2013 entirely in Judeo-Iraqi...

oldest and best-known synagogue in Cairo, where the important collection of historic documents known as the Cairo Geniza were discovered in the 19th century...

Maimonides to become sick with grief. In a letter discovered in the Cairo Geniza, he wrote: The greatest misfortune that has befallen me during my entire...

sociocultural backgrounds. The oldest Modern Greek text was found in the Cairo Geniza and is actually a Jewish translation of the Book of Ecclesiastes (Kohelet)...

invalids and the old were no longer observed in the milieu reflected by the Cairo Geniza and were discarded even in theory by the Shāfi'ī jurists who were influential...

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...

Chayim, 10-11 Agudah, p. 115 col. 2 Maharsha to Talmud Nedarim 20a of the Cairo geniza: https://www.hebrewbooks.org/21179 vol. 1, p. 229 "Ria"z", Jerusalem...

thanks to the thousands of piyyuts that have been discovered in the Cairo Geniza. It is assumed that the principle of rhyme was transferred from Hebrew...

times. A. Haffer suggests that it is אל יהוה אלהינו from Deut. 6:4. Cairo Geniza amulets (Oxford e.107:10, T-S K 1.127) contain the name א◌ׄנ◌ׄק◌ׄת◌ׄם◌ׄ...

to double" or "to fold." In a story repeated in a fragment from the Cairo Geniza and a work by the 12th century Jewish scholar Moses ben Jacob of Coucy...

of Sirach, copied in the 11th and 12th centuries, were found in the Cairo Geniza (a synagogue storage room for damaged manuscripts). Although none of...