Call it a 12th-century Duolingo. After recently rediscovering a 900-year-old scrap of paper once housed in the Cairo Geniza, researchers believe that famed Jewish philosopher Maimonides jotted himself ...

In Cairo’s famous Ben Ezra Synagogue, one of the city’s most prominent Jewish landmarks, a treasure trove of history lay hidden for centuries until its gradual discovery, piece by piece, and ...

Cambridge and Oxford universities announced on Friday that they will be conducting a collaborative fund-raising effort aimed at purchasing the Lewis-Gibson Genizah Collection before it is sold off to ...

Object Details Author Cambridge University Library Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit Subject Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit Date 1981 1981- Type Periodicals Physical description v. : ill.

A scrap of 900-year-old paper – part of Cambridge’s Cairo Genizah collection of more than 200,000 fragments of writing chronicling life over 1,000 years in Egypt and the Middle East – has been ...

Gabriele Ferrario of the Genizah Research Unit reveals a secret side to life in medieval Cairo: one governed by alchemy and magic. Show more Gabriele Ferrario of the Genizah Research Unit reveals the ...

Cambridge University’s Genizah Unit has received a grant of more than £1 million from the Friedberg Genizah Project to help digitise the nearly 200,000 fragments of ancient Jewish manuscripts in its ...