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Explains 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 shows the importance of the Genizah material for Jewish cultural history.

A collection of essays by international experts summarizing recent developments in Genizah research.

Contains editions of over 150 medieval Arabic legal and administrative documents found in the Cairo Genizah, the storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat (Old Cairo) where hundreds of thousands of worn-out and unusable manuscripts were deposited over centuries by the Jewish community.

This volume describes almost 9,500 Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic fragments of the Cairo Genizah.