It’s a uniquely practical issue and a particularly ironic one in our throwaway society. What to do with sacred objects that, for reasons of damage, age or simple lack of use, must be disposed of? In ...
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America's renowned Geniza Collection will be housed temporarily in the Princeton University Library while JTS, located in New York City, rebuilds its library. The ...
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Scholars transcribe hundreds of thousands of Cairo Geniza fragments, some never read before
A new research project by Israeli and international scholars has digitally transcribed the texts featured in hundreds of thousands of fragments from the celebrated Cairo Geniza, as well as thousands ...
Some people cap a career by writing a memoir or an exhaustive magnum opus based on a lifetime of research. But after eight books and 30 years at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York as rabbi ...
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