A Jewish archive from old Cairo : the history of Cambridge University's Genizah collection / Stefan...
A Jewish archive from old Cairo : the history of Cambridge University's Genizah collection / Stefan...
A Jewish archive from old Cairo : the history of Cambridge University's Genizah collection / Stefan C. Reif.
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Publisher
Richmond, Surrey : Curzon, 2000.
Date
2000.
Call Numbers
N027.74265/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
277 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Publication information
Publisher
Richmond, Surrey : Curzon, 2000.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2000.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"In 1897, Solomon Schechter brought over 140,000 fragmentary Jewish documents from the Ben Ezra synagogue in Cairo to Cambridge University Library and ushered in a new age of learning about Jews and Judaism as they existed in the Mediterranean a thousand years ago. The texts that he and others found in what has become famous as "the Cairo Genizah"...
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Full title
A Jewish archive from old Cairo : the history of Cambridge University's Genizah collection / Stefan C. Reif.
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Culture and civilisation in the Middle East.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N027.74265/1
Record Identifier
74VvGyDxqzgg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvGyDxqzgg
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ISBN
0700712763 (hc)
9780700713127 (pb)
0700713123 (pb)
9780700712762 (hc)
DDC
016.296
027.742659
MMS ID
991012736079702626
