geniza
Noun
Meaning
geniza (plural genizas or genizot or genizoth)
Alternative spelling of genizah.
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Geniza documents from this period refer only to "the graves of the patriarchs" and reveal there was an organised Jewish community in Hebron who had a synagogue near the tomb, and were occupied with accommodating Jewish pilgrims and merchants.
All four of these sources, together with many Geniza fragments, have been published online by Bar Ilan University in the form of a searchable database.
Fragments of the Pentateuch from the Cairo Geniza (see, e.g., ) are centuries older than this, and fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls (see, e.g., ) are well over a millennium older.
There are endless past PaleoJudaica posts on the Cairo Geniza.
Yet Choueka feared that digitizing the Geniza would be almost impossible, and hesitated for a long time before committing to it.
Past posts on the Cairo Geniza are with endless links.