Area in a synagogue or cemetery for the temporary storage of Jewish writing
A genizah at the Narkeldanga Cemetery, in Kolkata, India.[1]
A genizah (/ɡɛˈniːzə/; Hebrew: גניזה, lit. 'storage', also geniza; plural: genizot[h] or genizahs)[2] is a storage area in a Jewish synagogue or cemetery designated for the temporary storage of worn-out Hebrew-language books and papers on religious topics prior to proper cemetery burial.
^Chakraborty, Showli (1 September 2014). "Jewish Past, Digital Present". The Telegraph, Kolkata. Archived from the original on September 5, 2014. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
^Webster's Third New International Dictionary, 1961
A genizah (/ɡɛˈniːzə/; Hebrew: גניזה, lit. 'storage', also geniza; plural: genizot[h] or genizahs) is a storage area in a Jewish synagogue or cemetery...
spelled Genizah, is a collection of some 400,000 Jewish manuscript fragments and Fatimid administrative documents that were kept in the genizah or storeroom...
The Afghan Geniza (or Genizah) is a collection of hundreds of Jewish manuscript fragments found in a genizah in the caves of Afghanistan. The manuscripts...
MAIMONIDES)". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. "Cairo Genizah : Philosophy". For example, Joseph Telushkin noted that "Thomas Aquinas...
original on 5 June 2008. Retrieved 4 May 2010. Gregersen (1977:237) "Cairo Genizah : Philosophy". Cambridge Digital Library. Retrieved 17 June 2023. Ferguson...
accumulation of almost 200,000 Jewish manuscripts that were found in the genizah of the Ben Ezra synagogue (built 882) of Fustat, Egypt (now Old Cairo)...
Genizah manuscripts - images, identifications, catalogs, copies, joins, and bibliographic references. At the end of the nineteenth century, a genizah...
a cavity in the floor of its apse, which almost certainly served as a genizah, was uncovered; an Ark for the Torah Scrolls stood above it. The central...
historically significant Cairo Genizah documents of the Municipal Library was destroyed by the bombing. According to Arabist and Genizah scholar S.D. Goitein,...
and is available online. Manuscripts of the Talmud are as follows: Cairo Genizah fragments Date: earliest ones from the late 7th or 8th century Context:...
died in 1812 in Kolkata. The cemetery contains a late Nineteenth century genizah for the ritual disposition of sacred writings. The cemetery reflects the...
Kim (2016). "The Masora Magna of two biblical fragments from the Cairo Genizah, and the unusual practice of the scribe behind the Leningrad Codex". The...
variant readings of that targum. The Cairo Genizah Fragment Targums originate from the Ben-Ezra Synagogues genizah in Cairo. They share similarities with...
pages 475–476; see also pages 477–478 where a booklet found in Maimonides' Genizah with the text of Shi'ur Qomah appears with an annotation, possibly by Maimonides...
The Schechter Letter,[citation needed] also called the Genizah Letter or Cambridge Document,[citation needed] was discovered in the Cairo Geniza by Solomon...
20–. ISBN 978-90-04-15623-4. Retrieved 22 March 2013. "Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit". Archived from the original on 12 September 2016. Retrieved...
the Kabbalah from private libraries and ancient document dumps called Genizah. These were created when the books flooded into Mandatory Palestine during...
find 'Jesus the Nazarene — may his name be obliterated' (thus also in a Genizah MS, British Museum, Or. 91842). " New Testament theology Joachim Jeremias...
Henry Abramson Letter, written and signed by Isaac Luria, from the Cairo Genizah Traditional Sphardi Singing of Luria's Yom Zeh L'Yisrael Centre for Lurian...
round it to show that it is canceled, and the whole page must be put in a genizah (burial place for scripture) and a new page begun. One of the most important...
whereupon the golem fell in pieces. The Golem's body was stored in the attic genizah of the Old New Synagogue, where it would be restored to life again if needed...
are vowelized, and some of these, especially some fragments found in the Genizah, are partially annotated with Tiberian cantillation marks. Today, many...
Contribution to Their Political and Communal History Based Chiefly on Genizah Material Hitherto Unpublished. Oxford University Press. p. 46. Abraham...
Volume 12, Thomson Gale, Article: Kharaj and Jizya, Quote: "...Many extant *Genizah letters state that the collectors imposed the tax on children and demanded...
and Muslims, their history is relatively well-documented thanks to the Genizah documents. The community was divided between Rabbanites and Karaites. Traditionally...
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