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