30°00′21″N 31°13′52″E / 30.0058°N 31.2310°E / 30.0058; 31.2310 The Cairo Geniza, alternatively spelled Genizah, is a collection of some 400,000 Jewish...
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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...
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Damascus Document (redirect from Cairo Damascus)
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...
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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...
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History of the Jews in Egypt (redirect from Jewish Community of Cairo)
Synagogue in Cairo Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue in Alexandria Sha'ar Hashamayim Synagogue in Cairo Tomb of rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeira in Damanhur Cairo Geniza "Jews...
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Ben Ezra Synagogue (category Old Cairo)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Correspondence, together with the Schechter Letter discovered in the Cairo Geniza and the famous plato nizing dialogue by Judah Halevi, Sefer ha-Kuzari...
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