Cairo Genizah and the Age of Discovery in Egypt

Cairo Genizah and the Age of Discovery in Egypt

The History and Provenance of a Jewish Archive

Jefferson, Rebecca J. W.

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

02/2022

288

Dura

Inglês

9781788319638

15 a 20 dias

576

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List of figures
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Chapter 1: Hiding places for Hebrew manuscripts
Chapter 2: Seeking out the hiding places (1860s)
Chapter 3: Discovering the manuscript treasures of Egypt (1870s)
Chapter 4: Increasing demand for Hebrew manuscripts (early 1880s)
Chapter 5: Collectors and dealers on the rise (late 1880s)
Chapter 6: A hidden room laid open (1889-1890)
Chapter 7: Secret dispatches from Cairo (1890-1892)
Chapter 8: Lost provenance (1892-1893)
Chapter 9: From the genizah of an Egyptian synagogue (1894)
Chapter 10: A subterranean hoard (1895-1896)
Chapter 11: The keys to Cairo (1896-1897)
Chapter 12: In the footsteps of Jewish pilgrims (1897)
Chapter 13: No leaf left unturned (1897-1898)
Chapter 14: Finding every last fragment (1898-1899)
Chapter 15: An inexhaustible supply (1900s)
Epilogue
Appendix: Genizah collections
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