Cairo Genizah

GPTKB entity

Statements (51)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:archives
gptkbp:city gptkb:Fustat
gptkbp:contains gptkb:religion
legal documents
letters
personal correspondence
Jewish manuscript fragments
commercial records
gptkbp:country gptkb:Egypt
gptkbp:currentLocation gptkb:British_Library
gptkb:John_Rylands_Library
gptkb:National_Library_of_Israel
gptkb:Cambridge_University_Library
gptkb:Jewish_Theological_Seminary_of_America
gptkbp:discoveredBy gptkb:Solomon_Schechter
gptkbp:discoveredIn 1896
gptkbp:estimatedNumberOfFragments over 300,000
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Cairo Genizah
gptkbp:language gptkb:Arabic
gptkb:Aramaic
gptkb:Hebrew
gptkb:Judeo-Arabic
gptkbp:location gptkb:Ben_Ezra_Synagogue
gptkbp:material gptkb:newspaper
parchment
vellum
gptkbp:nameMeaning Genizah means 'storage' or 'repository' in Hebrew
gptkbp:notableFor gptkb:Letter_of_Maimonides
business letters of the medieval Jewish community
early copies of the Talmud
gptkbp:preservedIn storage in synagogue genizah
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Maimonides
gptkb:Ben_Ezra_Synagogue
gptkb:Judeo-Arabic_culture
gptkb:Solomon_Schechter
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Judaism
gptkbp:significance major source for medieval Jewish history
insight into Mediterranean trade
insight into daily life in medieval Egypt
gptkbp:startDate 9th to 19th centuries
gptkbp:subjectOf academic research
documentary films
digital preservation projects
books on Jewish history
gptkbp:UNESCOStatus gptkb:Memory_of_the_World_Register_(2017)
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Taylor-Schechter_Genizah_Collection
gptkb:Dead_Sea_Scroll
gptkb:Genizah_of_Cairo
gptkb:The_Schechter_Letter
gptkb:Genizah_Collection
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6