For a thousand years the Jewish community of Old Cairo put their worn-out writings into a synagogue storage room, a genizah. Explore one of the greatest collections of Cambridge University Library and a remarkable survival of the medieval past. Discarded History: The Genizah of Medieval Cairo provides a window on the life of a community a thousand years ago – a Jewish community in the centre of a thriving Islamic empire, international in outlook, multicultural in make up, devout to its core.
Discarded History: The Genizah of Medieval Cairo

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DATE
27 Avril 2017|28 Oct. 2017
VILLE
Cambridge
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UNITED KINGDOM
)COÛT DE L'ENTRÉE
free
ORGANISÉ PAR
Cambridge University Library