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	Genizah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Talmud (Tractate Shabbat 115a) directs that holy writings in other than the Hebrew language require "genizah", that is, preservation.
		In medieval times Hebrew scraps and papers that were relegated to the genizah were known as shemot or "names", because their sanctity and consequent claim to preservation were held to depend on their containing the "names" of God.
		In addition to papers, articles connected with the ritual, such as tzitzit, lulavim, and sprigs of myrtle, are similarly stored..
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Genizah (355 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.
		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.
		The genizah's leaves also tell the history of the Caspian kingdom of the Khazar's and its widescale conversion to Judaism in the beginning of the ninth century.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/Genizah.html (1074 words)

	Liturgica.com \| Liturgics \| Jewish Liturgics \| Early History of Jewish Worship-2
		Editors' note: Stefan C. Reif, Director of the Genizah Research Unit of the University of Cambridge, England, compares what is known of the worship practices of early Judaism with the liturgical evidence of ninth/tenth-century geonic Babylonia, contrasting the fluidity of the early period with the liturgical fixity of the latter.
		Although the majority of Genizah texts are generally dated from the tenth to the twelfth centuries, it is clear that there are a substantial number of earlier date and that in the nature of things the adoption of liturgical customs and rituals must anticipate their earliest recorded usage, even by some considerable time.
		The existence of thousands of Genizah texts representing almost every area of the Jewish religious tradition provides ample evidence of the growing tendency to commit the relevant teachings to authoritative, written form, and it is perhaps in the light of this development that the later literary history of midrashim, piyyutim, and targumim should be viewed.
	www.liturgica.com /html/litJLitHist2.jsp?hostname=liturgica (3873 words)

	The Cairo Genizah: a Medieval Mediterranean deposit and a modern Cambridge Archive - 66th IFLA Council and General ...
		The famous Cairo Genizah was amassed mainly between the tenth and thirteenth centuries and sheds light on all aspects of medieval oriental life.
		The impressive contents of the Cairo Genizah are in no small degree due to the arrival there of many Jewish refugees from Tunisia and to the transfer of the bibliographical riches of the North African communities to the Egyptian centre.
		The Genizah discoveries have illuminated what were once the dark expanses of Palestinian Jewish history and revealed how the Jews of the homeland conducted their personal, public and intellectual lives in the centuries immediately before and after the Crusader invasion that began in 1099.
	www.ifla.org /IV/ifla66/papers/058-145e.htm (2955 words)

	Bible Dictionary: Genizah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The room attached to a synagogue where biblical manuscripts unfit for liturgical use (often because of small errors etc.) are kept is called a genizah.
		A number of important ancient manuscripts of parts of the OT were found in a genizah in Cairo.
		The genizah system indicates similar respect, which also produced the Masoretic system of scribal checks and balances to protect the letter of the text.
	www.bible.gen.nz /amos/culture/genizah.htm (118 words)

	Schechter Letter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Also called the "Cambridge Document", the "Schechter Letter" was discovered in the genizah of a Cairo synagogue by Solomon Schechter.
		Many believe that the Schechter Letter was addressed to Hasdai ibn Shaprut by a Constantinopolitan Khazar after his first, unsuccessful attempt to correspond with the Khazar king Joseph (see Khazar Correspondence).
		The Letter was included in the Genizah Collection donated by Schechter to Cambridge University in 1898.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Schechter_Letter (549 words)

	Genizah: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The cairo geniza is an accumulation of jewish manuscripts written from about 870 to as late as 1880 ce, that were found in the geniza of the synagogue of fustat...
		It was the identification of a Ben Sira text among the Bodleian fragments in May of that year which induced Schechter to proceed to Cairo in the autumn and bring back with him practically the entire written contents of the genizah.
		The genizah is protected from the designs of the desecrator or collector by a legend, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/genizah.htm (2385 words)

	: : Mauro Perani - The “Italian Genizah” : :
		After the discovery of the Cairo Genizah at the end of the XIX century, the discovery of a similar European Genizah was largely the utopic dream of the scholars of the Old Continent.
		A characteristic of the “Italian Genizah” is the heterogeneity of the origin of the fragments.
		David A. and Tabory J.(edd.), The Italian Genizah (in ebraico, italiano e inglese), Proceedings of the Conference held under the auspices of The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Jewish National and University Library of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, January 9, 1996 (17 Teveth 5756), Jerusalem 1998.
	www.morasha.it /zehut/mp06_italian_ghenizah.html (6929 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Books \| The Fustat connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Goitein was not the first to study the Genizah documents, but he was gifted for attracting talented students who enthusiastically took up the challenge of enlarging the circle of researchers concentrating on the various aspects of the manuscripts discovered in the repository of the Ben Ezra Synagogue.
		Reif, who for the past 25 years has been in charge of the Genizah section at the Cambridge University Library, asserts that "one of [his] aims was not to restrict the activities of the Genizah Research Unit to the kind of technical observation, manuscript research and bibliographical publication that would be valuable...
		Normally it was customary to remove these texts to a cave and burial place, as proved by the remnants of a buried Genizah in the Jewish cemetery of Bassatin; but in the case of the Ben Ezra consignment, it was left to accumulate in the synagogue's lumbered storeroom.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/520/bo3.htm (1029 words)

	The Toby Press: The Genizah at the House of Shepher by Tamar Yellin
		Set against the backdrop of a changing Jerusalem over a hundred and thirty years, The Genizah at the House of Shepher is a large-canvas novel of exile and belonging, displacement, and the quest for both love and a true promised land.
		TAMAR YELLIN was born in the north of England, and studied Hebrew and Arabic at Oxford.
		The Genizah at the House of Shepher is her first published novel.
	www.tobypress.com /books/genizah.htm (272 words)

	Between the Lines, Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Because the Cairo Genizah was located inside a synagogue and in a very arid country, many of the centuries-old fragments were in excellent condition when they were discovered.
		To preserve the genizah fragments, she places them in mylar-plastic sleeves and inserts the pages of plastic in volumes.
		In addition, there are 40,000 Cairo Genizah fragments, archives of modern Jewish history, prints, photographs and illuminated documents, including the largest collection of marriage contracts in the world.
	www.jtsa.edu /library/news/btl/btl_13_2.shtml (2177 words)

	Welcome to Emunah of America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		These headlines were taken from The Genizah News, a modern rendition of daily happenings during the period of the Cairo Genizah.
		He had climbed into the attic that served as the Genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue (formerly known as Kanisat al-Shamiyin, that is, the synagogue conducted according to the Palestinian rite) which had been in continuous use since the early Middle Ages.
		Viewing the Cairo Genizah is like looking through a window of history, "a mirror of life." During that period, mainly from the 10th to l3th centuries C.E., some four hundred years, about 90 percent of the Jewish people lived in the Mediterranean region.
	www.emunah.org /print_this.php?id=346_0_4_0 (1545 words)

	Glückel of Hameln (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		One, of course, was the discovery of the genizah in Cairo.
		In 1896 the genizah manuscripts attracted the attention of a Jewish scholar, Solomon Schechter, who discovered there a piece of the ancient Hebrew book "Wisdom of Ben Sirah," previously known only in Greek translation.
		After that the genizah material was studied by scholars and much interesting material was found--about 2/3 of the book of Ben Sirah, and many writings of Rabbi Sa'adiah Gaon, Egypt's great scholar who, among other things, translated the Bible into Arabic.
	www.phy6.org /outreach/Jewish/Gluckel.htm (1396 words)

	H-Net Review: John D. Brolley on The Cambridge Genizah Collections: Their Contents and Significance
		In the area of liturgy, Neil Danzig discusses a Genizah fragment containing a geonic pirqa that he uses to trace the origins of the yequm purqan prayer, as well as the qaddish, used in medieval Babylonian Judaism to begin the homily that customarily closed the pirqa lecture.
		Chapter 9, Mordechai A. Friedman's "On Marital Age, Violence and Mutuality in the Genizah Documents," examines three separate, yet inter-related, medieval topics: betrothals involving girls legally considered to be children, "extreme domestic violence," and the reciprocity expressed in marriage contracts (both Rabbanite and Karaite--fragments of which are contained in the Genizah corpus).
		Based on his work with the Genizah fragments and the fifth-century Antinoopolis ketubbah, he argues that entries documenting a wife's obligations to her husband existed as early as the Byzantine period, rather than the later Bablyonian period.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=133611079048696 (904 words)

	The Cambridge Genizah Collections - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A centennial assessment of Genizah studies Stefan C. Reif; 2.
		Genizah manuscripts of Ben Sira Menahem Kister; 3.
		On marital age, violence and mutuality in the Genizah documents Mordechai A. Friedman; 10.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521813611 (393 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Hebrew Manuscripts of the Cairo Genizah
		There were two special features of the Cairo genizah that have never been fully explained: unlike in most other genizahs, very few burials were ever carried out; and the parchments and papers reverently placed there covered a wide range of subjects apart from the normal sacred texts and commentaries.
		Furthermore, in the thousand years after the founding of the synagogue, the genizah was never disturbed by the outside Muslim authorities.
		Both New York University and the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library are involved in the conservation, cataloguing and transcription of the Cairo Genizah material.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A10358868 (1251 words)

	The Cairo Genizah: A Mirror of Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The importance of this Genizah is enhanced by the richness of the topics since, among its various functions over the centuries, the Ben Ezra Synagogue served as the principle gathering place for the inhabitants of the community, and assemblies conducted there are reported in correspondence to and from Fustat.
		Another remarkable, somewhat earlier figure in Jewish history represented in the Genizah, Sa'adia ben Joseph -- known to us as Sa'adia Gaon -- was born in 882 in the Fayum district of Egypt.
		He became head of the leading rabbinical center in Sura in southern Babylonia and was considered the greatest scholar and author of the Geonic period (7th to 11th centuries).
	www.emunah.org /magazine_comments.php?id=346_0_4_0_C (1754 words)

	Reif: CD from the Cairo Geniza
		Today's intense interest in both the most obscure contents of the Genizah Collection itself and in the people associated over the years with its discovery and exploitation is to a considerable degree due to such changes in scholarly outlook.
		Schechter had already passed enough Genizah material to Ginzberg to ensure that he would overtake his chief in the matter of the quantity of his Genizah publications and was anxious to retain exclusive control of CD.
		What is clear is that he knew of the importance of its genizah and that, if his financial situation had permitted it, he might have persevered longer in Cairo and pre-empted Schechter's extensive discoveries of more than thirty years later.
	orion.mscc.huji.ac.il /symposiums/3rd/papers/Reif98.html (8073 words)

	The University of Manchester Digital Library
		The Special Collections Division of the John Rylands University Library holds a collection of around 11,000 fragments, mostly written in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, from the Genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo, purchased from the estate of Dr Moses Gaster in 1954.
		The aim is to expand this database to include images of all the Rylands Genizah fragments accompanied by their catalogue descriptions as part of an online searchable and browseable catalogue.
		The Rylands Genizah Project is funded by the Friedberg and Safra Foundations, as well as by Mr Joe Dwek, while additional funding is currently being sought.
	rylibweb.man.ac.uk /insight/genizah.htm (625 words)

	Press Releases, The Jewish Theological Seminary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		New York, NY, January 3, 2006 — Digitization of 40,000 fragments of the Cairo Genizah is underway at The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary, the first library worldwide to have its collection digitized employing the latest technology through the support of the Friedberg Genizah Project.
		The Cairo Genizah was a storehouse of documents written in Hebrew characters between the tenth and nineteenth centuries located in the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo.
		Today, the Cairo Genizah is universally considered one of the most important historical discoveries of all time, affording scholars across the globe an in–depth understanding of Jewish and Muslim life in the medieval Mediterranean world.
	www.jtsa.edu /about/communications/press/20052006/20060103.shtml (538 words)

	JewishGates.Com - The Definitive Source for Talmudic Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Many Genizah fragments came into the possession of S. Wertheimer, who published them at the close of the 19th century.
		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.
		Even the thousands of fragments that were published by different scholars appeared in a large variety of periodicals which themselves were not arranged in an orderly and coordinated bibliographical manner.
	www.jewishgates.com /file.asp?File_ID=70 (612 words)

	A Chronlogy of Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		When he returned they continued and quickly confirmed that it was the synagogue because they found a genizah.
		Every synagogue has a special room called the genizah which is where the place scrolls and prayer books that have been worn out.
		Even though they cannot be used for worship they are still sacred and must be disposed of properly by being placed in the genizah.
	homepage.mac.com /michaelburns/Israel/Pages/182.html (165 words)

	Wisconsin Bookwatch: The Genizah at the House of Shepherd
		Wisconsin Bookwatch: The Genizah at the House of Shepherd
		The Genizah At The House Of Shepherd is a sweeping novel that follows the return of an English biblical scholar to her grandparents' home in Jerusalem.
		As much a parable of the transformations in Jerusalem over a hundred and thirty years as it is the story of one woman's struggle for identity and search for answers, The Genizah At The House Of Shepherd is a deeply enthralling narrative of epic spiritual proportions.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0RGS/is_2005_August/ai_n14874673 (112 words)

	"...in the twinkling of an eye..."
		The Jews have a storage area in their synagogues called a genizah where unusable books/manuscripts and ritual objects are kept (these areas were also used to house historical documents and questionable books).
		One such treasure trove has been the Cairo Genizah which was found in the attic of the Ezra Synagogue.
		This forum is for the dissemination of pertinent information on an end-times biblical theme which includes many disturbing, unethical, immoral, etc. topics and should be viewed with a mature, discerning eye.
	philologos.org /bpr/files/t009.htm (443 words)

	Transfer of Mosseri Genizah Archive from Paris to Cambridge University Library and its digitisation (with metadata), ...
		The Genizah texts are undoubtedly as important for scholarly and popular understanding of cultural history as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
		The Mosseri Genizah archives are owned by the Mosseri family who inherited them from their father, Cairene businessman Jacques Mosseri, who re-located to Paris in the 1930s.
		Much of it dates from the classical Genizah period (10-13th centuries) but there appears to be a greater preponderance of 16th century items.
	www.bl.uk /about/policies/endangeredarch/reif.html (493 words)

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