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	Cairo Geniza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The normal practice for genizas in the Middle East was to periodically remove the contents and bury them in a cemetery; as a result, few genizas explored in the years following the discovery of the Cairo Geniza produced anything of interest.
		Goitein remarks that the number of documents dropped in number about 1266, and saw a rise around 1500 when the local community was increased by refugees from Spain, and remained in use until the contents were finally emptied by western scholars eager for the material.
		Although a sizeable collection of papers purchased by Solomon A. Wertheimer from the Cairo Geniza had arrived at the University Library at Cambridge University, Solomon Schechter, reader in rabbinics at the university, had such little regard for these materials that he forwarded the collection unopened to the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cairo_Geniza (1257 words)

	A Window into Jewish Medieval Life
		Mordechai A. Friedman, incumbent of the Joseph and Ceil Mazer Chair in Jewish Culture in Muslim Lands and Cairo Geniza Studies at TAU's Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, the Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of the Humanities.
		Discovered 100 years ago, most of the Geniza's 250,000 fragments, including full page documents and a handful of books preserved in their entirety, were penned by members of the Jewish community in Cairo over a period of 250 years, between 1000 and 1250.
		In 1896, the importance of the Cairo Geniza came to the attention of Cambridge University scholar Prof.
	www.tau.ac.il /taunews/97spring/medieval.html (1228 words)

	Search Results for "Cairo"
		Cairo geniza, (ko´ro gn´ez) (KEY), archive of ancient Jewish manuscripts found in the synagogue of Fostat-Cairo, Egypt (built 882).
		Cairo Conference, Nov. 22-26, 1943, World War II meeting of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Generalissimo...
		It is the trade center for a densely populated agricultural region....
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Cairo (258 words)

	Genizah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A Genizah' or Geniza (Hebrew "burial"; according to S. Goitein, from the Persian word gonj "storehouse, treasure") is the storeroom or depository in a synagogue, usually specifically a cemetery for worn-out Hebrew language books and papers on religious topics.
		This custom also included the periodic solemn gathering of the contents of the Geniza, which were then buried in the cemetery or "bet ḥayyim"; synagogues in Jerusalem would bury the contents of their Genizot every seventh year, as well as during a year of drought, believing that this would bring rain.
		Perhaps the best known analysis of the docouments found was performed by the late S. Goitein, who drew from his careful study of these documents to write an account of the daily life of the Jewish people in the Muslim world in the years between 1002 and 1266.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/G/Genizah.htm (1252 words)

	Cairo Geniza -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Shechter-Taylor collection in the University of Cambridge runs to 140,000 manuscripts; there are a further 40,000 fragments at the (Click link for more info and facts about Jewish Theological Seminary) Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
		Gibson, showed him some leaves from the geniza that contained the Hebrew text of (An Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect)) Ecclesiasticus, which had for centuries only been known in Greek and Latin translation.
		Another such item is the first copies of the The Damascus Document known in modern times, one of the more important texts of the ((Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late 1940s) Dead Sea Scrolls.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/cairo_geniza.htm (954 words)

	GENIZA [II:987b] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The major part of the documentary material of the Cairo Geniza is written in Arabic language, though in Hebrew characters.
		Business letters were invariably and family letters generally written in Arabic, and the same applies to court records and other legal documents with the exception of writs of divorce, deeds of manumission and the formal—but not the substantial—parts of marriage contracts.
		The importance of the Geniza documents for the economic, social and cultural history of mediaeval Islam, as well as for the history of the Arabic language, is being more and more recognized.
	www1.encislam.brill.nl /data/EncIslam/S3/SIM-2433.html (1644 words)

	JS @ Emory - Celebrating the Cairo Geniza
		The Cairo Geniza is a unique collection of 750,000 manuscript leaves from the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat (Old Cairo), Egypt, brought to light at the end of the nineteenth century.
		The Cairo Geniza represents one of the most important modern discoveries of manuscript materials, on the order of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
		Two thirds of the Geniza was brought to Cambridge University at the end of the nineteenth century, and the rest was distributed among libraries and collections in Europe, North America, and the Middle East.
	www.js.emory.edu /geniza (312 words)

	The Cairo Genizah
		The importance of the Cairo Genizah became apparant in 1896, when two Christians brought some leaves to Solomon Schechter, who at the time was a professor of Talmudic and rabbinical literature at England's Cambridge University.
		Soon after the Arab conquest of Egypt in the late seventh century, the newly built city of Fostat became the administrative center of the country until Cairo was built adjacent to it in the 10th century.
		The Cairo Genizah also included abundant material on the history of the Karaites and numerous responsa from the Gaonic Period, including works by Saadiah ben Joseph, the gaon of Sura, in the early tenth century, and other Babylonian geonim.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/Genizah.html (1074 words)

	Emory University News Release - geniza
		Emory University has acquired microfilm copies of the entire Cambridge University Cairo Geniza, a collection of 750,000 manuscript leaves from the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat (Old Cairo), Egypt, discovered at the end of the 19th century.
		The Cairo Geniza is one of the most important modern discoveries of manuscript materials, on the order of the Dead Sea Scrolls, according to Gordon Newby, chairman of Middle Eastern and South Asian studies at Emory.
		Two thirds of the Geniza was brought to Cambridge at the end of the 19th century, and the rest was distributed among libraries and collections in Europe, North America and the Middle East.
	www.news.emory.edu /Releases/geniza1102718127.html (409 words)

	Background and History of the Project (1985-1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The texts come from a collection of roughly 15,000 Geniza texts (out of the total 200,000+) which deal with the daily life of the Jewish community in Cairo and those of other places in the Mediterranean, mainly in the 11th to 13th centuries.
		The term "document" and hence "documentary Geniza" has a technical function in Geniza studies that is obscured by the common use of the term document to mean any electronic text file.
		In Geniza studies "document" means any text, a self-contained leaf or a leaf from a notebook, that originates in daily, routine activity (letters, legal documents, business accounts, marriage contracts, divorce documents and lists of all kinds) rather than being pages from a copied manuscript on a literary subject.
	www.princeton.edu /~geniza/gen-his1.htm (960 words)

	Ben Ezra Synagogue, Cairo
		This famous synagogue in Fostat (Old Cairo) was called originally the synagogue of 'the men of Israel', built in the year 882 on the remains of the basilica of a Coptic church that had been sold to Jews.
		One of the most famous Jews of the Middle Ages, Moses Maimonides (Moshe Ben-Maimon -HaRambam), physician, philosopher, authority on religious law, worshipped at this synagogue while living in Cairo, as a result of which it was popularly called the Maimonides Synagogue.
		During a restoration in the 1890's, a great discovery took place: a medieval Geniza (hiding place) was found.
	www.bh.org.il /Communities/Synagogue/cairo.asp (234 words)

	THE CAIRO GENIZA: A VIRTUAL TRIP TO JEWISH CAMBRIDGE.
		Geniza is the Hebrew for 'a storeroom for old damaged Jewish books no longer fit for ritual purposes', and the premodifier Cairo refers here to the place the collection was found originally: an old synagogue of Cairo.
		The Cairo Geniza was discovered by European world of learning over a century ago by Solomon Schechter, a Jewish scholar on his expedition to Cairo in 1896 (cf.
		A part of the Cairo Geniza constitutes documents related to the Karaite presence in the Middle East, with a well established community of Egypt active until the rule of Gamal Abdel Nasser.
	www.esek.com /jerusalem/geniza.html (1709 words)

	Mordechai Akiva Friedman מרדכי עקיבא ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Developments in Jewish marriage and family law as reflected in the Cairo Geniza documents.
		Polygyny in Jewish tradition and practice; new sources from the Cairo Geniza.
		The ransom-divorce; divorce proceedings initiated by the wife in Mediaeval Jewish practice [three fragmented documents from the Cairo Geniza in Judaeo-Arabic].
	www.tau.ac.il /humanities/talmud/friedm.htm (758 words)

	Cairo Geniza - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Cairo Geniza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cairo Geniza - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Cairo Geniza.
		Here you will find more informations about Cairo Geniza.
		Lassner furnished the estimate that all of the Arabic papyri and other writing found in Egypt number less than 100,000.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Cairo-Geniza.html (1264 words)

	Egyptvoyager.com: The Roman Fort- Roman Cairo
		The Greek Orthodox Church and Monastery of St George (Mari Girgis) is built onto the northern of the twin western towers of the Roman fort.
		The crypt of St Sergius's church is reputedly where the Holy Family sheltered after their flight into Egypt; it suffers badly from water damage (as indeed does all of Old Cairo, although steps are being taken by the Egyptian Government to drain groundwater from the area).
		One of the most important historical sources for Cairo was found in this building: the Cairo Geniza archive, a collection of more than 250,000 manuscripts dating from 1002 AD onwards, many of which are now in London and Cambridge.
	www.egyptvoyager.com /towns_cairo_history_roman_romanfort.htm (397 words)

	Artifacts link Muslim, Jewish scholars--Ummah.comComparative Religion
		For hundreds of years, the Jews of Cairo deposited documents and fragments of paper that bear the name of God in a chamber behind a wall on the second floor mezzanine of the Ben Ezra Synagogue.
		The word "geniza" means burial or burial place and other genizas have been found in cemeteries.
		Documents from the Cairo Geniza have been distributed to 20 libraries, with the most important going to Cambridge University in England, Professor Cohen said.
	www.ummah.net /forum/showthread.php?t=26182 (874 words)

	JewishGates.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Ezra Synagogue in Fostat (Old Cairo), founded in 882 CE on the ruins of an old Coptic Church, was one of the most famous synagogues in Egypt.
		The Cairo Geniza was made famous, however, primarily by Solomon Schechter.
		Until recently, research on the Cairo Genizah was pursued in an uncoordinated manner by scholars who, interested only in their own fields of study, never attempted to record and classify the entire collection.
	www.jewishgates.com /file.asp?File_ID=70 (603 words)

	Class Notes for Damascus Document
		The Cairo geniza fragments of DD overlap with each other (Cairo A, column 8 parallels Cairo B, "column 19") and show some variations in the material that they have in common.
		In other words, we need to recreate the self-identity of the two documents to determine the context(s) in which they were written, and the authors' friends, foes, and goals.
		The synagogue that housed the Genizah may once have been a Christian church, as some reused copies of Origen's writings have been found in the Genizah; the Jewish synagogue was functioning in the 9th century and may have become Karaite at some point.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~dkhouri/project/ddclass.html (2101 words)

	Goitein, the Geniza, and Muslim History
		The Geniza people were essentially urban, and the Geniza offers a unique opportunity to assess and annotate some of the assumptions about Islamic urban history, as Goitein himself announced at the beginning of the volume.
		Four current graduate students at Princeton are preparing dissertations based in part on the Geniza: one, on the office of the nesiut, the second, on the Almohad movement, the third, on the medieval port city of Aden, and the fourth, on Muslim family law in the Mamluk period.
		Today, as president of Cairo University, Rabie continues to preach the importance of the Geniza and the work of Goitein that his teacher, Bernard Lewis, made sure he absorbed while a doctoral student in London.
	www.dayan.org /mel/cohen.htm (3217 words)

	Jewish Women's Names in an Arab Context: Names from the Geniza of Cairo
		One notable exception is the series of studies based on the documents found in the Geniza of Cairo (see the bibliography for complete references).
		A "Geniza" is a collection of documents written in the Hebrew alphabet.
		Thus, the Geniza of Cairo was remarkably well preserved, allowing us a surprisingly complete picture of the lives of Jews in that city in the Middle Ages.
	www.sca.org /heraldry/laurel/names/geniza.html (894 words)

	Powell's Books - Mediterranean Society Volume 2 : the Jewish Communities of the Arab Worlds As Portrayed in the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This six-volume "portrait of a Mediterranean personality" is a composite portrait of the individuals who wrote the personal letters, contracts, and all other manuscript fragments that found their way into the Cairo Geniza.
		Most of the fragments from the Geniza, a storeroom for discarded writings that could not be thrown away because they might contain the name of God, had been removed to Cambridge University Library and other libraries around the world.
		Professor Goitein devoted the last thirty years of his long and productive life to their study, deciphering the language of the documents and organizing what he called a "marvelous treasure trove of manuscripts" into a coherent, fascinating picture of the society that created them.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=65-0520221591-1 (434 words)

	History \| Faculty \| Rustow
		Because many of the documents we have from the medieval Near East were preserved by religious institutions and reflect their interests, historians have tended to take religious doctrine for granted as a salient feature of daily life.
		I spend most of my research time reading sources from the Cairo Geniza, a storeroom for discarded papers in Hebrew characters whose nearly one million pages are now in libraries in Europe and the US.
		I am especially interested in personal letters and legal document from the Geniza dating to the period between 900 and 1250, and the way they reflect the manners, gestures, patronage relationships, and personal hierarchies that structured Near Eastern society.
	www.history.emory.edu /faculty/rustow.htm (310 words)

	Cairo Geniza - Mr Cairo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Written on leather, it was found in the Cairo Geniza and is now held in the library of Jews' College.
		Genizah documents at the University Library was a continuation of the highly successful exhibition The Cairo Genizah: A Mosaic of Life held...
		A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza.
	www.costaricabirding.com /cairo-geniza.html (334 words)

	Genizah Fragments: Volume 6
		Very little is known of the dwindling "Nestorian" community in Cairo after the end of the twelfth century, and so these small fragments provide tangible evidence for its continuing existence into the thirteenth or even fourteenth century; perhaps the manuscript was sold as scrap when the community finally faded out of existence.
		The literary treasures from the Cairo Genizah contain many of the polemical works which he directed against the various sects of his day that he regarded as heretical.
		The Cairo Genizah as a Jewish Time-Machine was the title of a series of three lectures given by Dr Stefan Reif to the Glasgow branch of the Young Jewish Leadership Institute.
	www.lib.cam.ac.uk /Taylor-Schechter/GF/6 (3778 words)

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