Cairo Geniza documents

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gptkb:Friedberg_Genizah_Project
gptkb:Princeton_Geniza_Project
gptkbp:city gptkb:Cairo
gptkbp:contentType gptkb:poetry
gptkb:religion
legal documents
business records
letters
contracts
gptkbp:country gptkb:Egypt
gptkbp:currentLocation gptkb:British_Library
gptkb:John_Rylands_Library
gptkb:Cambridge_University_Library
gptkb:Jewish_Theological_Seminary_of_America
gptkbp:discoveredBy gptkb:Solomon_Schechter
gptkbp:fragmentNumber over 300,000
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Cairo Geniza documents
gptkbp:language gptkb:Arabic
gptkb:Aramaic
gptkb:Hebrew
gptkb:Judeo-Arabic
gptkbp:locatedIn gptkb:Ben_Ezra_Synagogue
gptkbp:material gptkb:newspaper
parchment
gptkbp:notableFor biblical manuscripts
liturgical poetry
business letters of the medieval Mediterranean
legal responsa
letter of Maimonides
personal letters of Jewish women
gptkbp:preservedIn storage in synagogue geniza
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Ben_Ezra_Synagogue
gptkb:Solomon_Schechter
gptkb:Jewish_community_of_Fustat
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Judaism
gptkbp:significance source for Mediterranean social history
source for medieval Jewish history
gptkbp:startDate 9th to 19th centuries
gptkbp:studiedBy gptkb:Mark_Cohen
gptkb:Geniza_Research_Unit
gptkb:Norman_Golb
gptkb:S.D._Goitein
gptkb:Shelomo_Dov_Goitein
gptkbp:UNESCOStatus gptkb:Memory_of_the_World_Register
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gptkbp:bfsLayer 5