Noun
genizah (plural genizahs or genizot or genizoth)
(Jewish law) A depository where sacred Hebrew books or other sacred items that by Jewish law cannot be disposed of are kept before they can be properly buried in a cemetery.
The Cairo Genizah was discovered in 1896.
In 1928 Davidson found – following a suggestion by Brody – three other poems by Yannai among the Genizah fragments in the Bodleian Library: he published them in Genizah Studies (vol. 3, 1928).” Source: Internet
Since both communities had their own synagogues and lived their lives separately from each other, Samaritan documents in the Genizah are somewhat an exotic discovery. Source: Internet
This awesome accomplishment of the Jerusalem-based Friedberg Genizah Project finally will allow scholars – and anyone else with Internet access – to examine complete pages of documents retrieved more than a century ago from the legendary Cairo genizah. Source: Internet
This sacred storeroom was called the Genizah. Source: Internet
Whereas beginning roughly with the 12th century C. E. It was the Babylonian formula which prevailed down to our own days, the Cairo Genizah has preserved for us tens of ketubbot written according to the Palestinian pattern. Source: Internet