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Cairo Geniza documents concerning the Jews of Mosul

Cairo Geniza documents concerning the Jews of Mosul

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Jun 18, 2024
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The Cairo Geniza refers to the cache of about 300,000 documents found in the attic storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue, located in Fustat (in Old Cairo), the capital city of Egypt during the seventh–tenth centuries C.E. The creation and preservation of the Cairo Geniza owes to the long-lived Jewish habit of consigning disused texts in Hebrew script to a…

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