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Cairo geniza (kō`rō gən`ēzə), archive of ancient Jewish manuscripts found in the synagogue of Fostat-Cairo, Egypt (built 882). In the 1890s western scholars visited the synagogue and removed the materials to the Bodleian Library at Oxford Univ., the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, and other major repositories. The materials are an extremely important resource for the study of biblical writings and translations, ancient Jewish liturgies, communal records, and the relations between Jews and Arabs in medieval Islamic society. |
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The author is a distinguished Israeli scholar who is known especially for his study of the Cairo Geniza documents which were written by Jewish people living at the time the events which he discusses took place. |
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