CAMBRIDGE CAIRO GENIZAH ANCIENT HEBREW MANUSCRIPT PARCHMENT JEWISH HISTORY EGYPT

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CAMBRIDGE CAIRO GENIZAH ANCIENT HEBREW MANUSCRIPT PARCHMENT JEWISH HISTORY EGYPT
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Catalogue if the Cairo Genizah Fragments in the Westminster College Library,  Elazar Hurvitz, Yeshiva University Press, 207 pages. New  (Volume 1)
The Cairo Genizah Fragments in the Westminster Library,Elazar Hurvitz, Yeshiva University, 315 pages (Volume 2)
2 VOLUMES, volume one is the historical background of finding the Cairo Genizah, and the other is a bibliogrpahic listing of the hundereds of fragments found there.
Volume ONE describes an historical overview of the finding of the Cairo Geniza. These fragments include remains from Biblical literature, the Oral Law, including Mishnah, Talmuds and Midrashic literature, liturgy and poetry, archival material belonging to the institutions of the Egyptian Jewish community and a variegated gallery of diverse personal letters. The volume provides a detailed history of the Westminster College Geniza collection, including the activities of the Lewis-Gibson sisters, who spread word of the existence and importance of the Cairo Geniza in contemporary newspapers and in their biographical books. Additionally, this volume presents a wide-ranging historical study of the history of the Ben Ezra synagogue.
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