Geniza - Gesundheit; 1999
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- Identifier
- MS1133-0135
- Title
- Geniza - Gesundheit; 1999
- Description
- Rabbi Shapiro's paper dwells on the Cairo Genizah, a collection of documents from the Cairo Jewish community between the 10th and 13th centuries. It consists of tracts, letters, money orders,, book remnants and others that together compose a mosaic of Jewish life. It also includes the Damascus Covenant, describing a lost Jewish sect mentioned in the Qumran scrolls. Shapiro recounts the story of how these documents came to reside at Cambridge University. Its rescue led to the acquisition of other genizas. He recounts details from the documents and discusses what the documents reveal about Jewsih culture of that period, and the great similarities with modern Jewish culture.
- Date
- 15 April 1999
- Creator
- Shapiro, Morris
- topic
- talk
- lecture
- SPHEX Club
- Morris Shapiro
- Shapiro
- 1999
- Jews
- Jewish
- Jewish mother
- genizot
- genizah
- Cairo Genizah
- Ben-Ezra
- Egypt
- Moslems
- Joseph Caro
- Maimonides
- Damascus Covenant
- Schechter
- Firkovich
- Cambridge
- Margaret Gibson
- Bassatin Cemetery
- Jacob Mann
- Goitein
- Wahsha
- polygamy
- history of Yiddish
- Solomon Schechter
- Type
- Text
- Genre
- lectures
- Digital Format
- application/pdf
- Language
- English
- Repository
- George M. Jones Library Association
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights Holder
- Morris Shapiro
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