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    Items with the tag:

    genizah

    Cover of Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries
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    Jew­ish Trea­sures from Oxford Libraries
    Edited by Rebecca Abrams and Cesar Merchan-Hamann
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    The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue
    Mari­na Rustow
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    The Last Watch­man of Old Cairo
    Michael David Lukas
    Cover of The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages: An Anthology of Documents From the Cairo Geniza
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    The Voice of the Poor in the Mid­dle Ages: An Anthol­o­gy of Doc­u­ments From the Cairo Geniza
    Mark Cohen
    Cover of The Genizah at the House of Shepher
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    The Genizah at the House of Shepher
    Tamar Yellin
    Cover of Sacred Treasure - The Cairo Genizah: The Amazing Discoveries of Forgotten Jewish History in an Egyptian Synagogue Attic
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    Sacred Trea­sure — The Cairo Genizah: The Amaz­ing Dis­cov­er­ies of For­got­ten Jew­ish His­to­ry in an Egypt­ian Syn­a­gogue Attic
    Rabbi Mark Glickman
    Cover of Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
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    Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
    Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole

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