A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo
Subtitle: The History of Cambridge University's Genizah Collection (Culture and Civilisation in the Middle East)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: March 9, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780700712762
Subjects: Bibliographies, catalogues, discographies; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Jewish studies; Middle & Near Eastern archaeology; Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789; History: World; General; History - General History; Manuscripts; Middle East; Jewish - General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Egypt; Cairo; Cairo Genizah; History; Jewish archives; Judaism
First sentence: Over seven hundred years ago, when a few brave souls in England were bearing the torch of learning to damp and distant Cambridge, and almost four centuries before Hebrew was taught at its famous university, a Jewish community known throughout the Islamic empire for its social and political stability, as well as its economic and cultural achievements, had already been flourishing on the Nile for two hundred and fifty years.