A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo: The History of Cambridge University's Genizah Collection (Culture and Civilisation in the Middle East)

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1) Paperback Book A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo: The History of Cambridge University's Genizah Collection (Culture and Civilisation in the Middle East) by RoutledgeCurzon. Author Stefan Reif is Director of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at the Cambridge University Library. This book discusses the amazing treasure-trove of documents from Egypt´s Cairo Genizah, which yielded several important documents about the Khazars, included writings by famous Jewish personalities like Moses Maimonides and Yehuda HaLevi, and also helps us better understand the daily lives of medieval Jews in subjects as wide ranging as medicine, music, marriage, philosophy, religious practices, and relations with Muslims and Christians. Reif provides capsule histories of the amassing of the Genizah Collection, biographies of the personalities who worked on Genizah research and preservation efforts, and summaries and illustrations of many of the documents contained in the collection.¤

2) Paperback Book A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo: The History of Cambridge University's Genizah Collection (Culture and Civilisation in the Middle East) by RoutledgeCurzon. In this readable and intriguing study, Reif has told a number of remarkable stories. He has explained how Cairo came to have its important Genizah archive, how Cambridge developed its interests in Hebraica, and how a number of colourful figures brought about the connection between the two centres. Also reliably summarised here are the importance of the Genizah material for Jewish cultural history and the manner in which its conservation, decipherment and publication have proceeded in the course of a century.¤

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