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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...