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Get email notification for articles from David B. Green Follow Apr. 29, 2021 6:55 PM In 1970, Israel Adler, then the director of Israel’s Jewish National and University Library, visited the Paris home of Rachel Mosseri, a Jewish exile from Nasser’s Egypt. Adler had a big mission, and limited time to carry it out – just 10 days to catalog and photograph the roughly 7,000 documents from the Cairo Genizah that constituted the collection assembled by Mosseri’s late husband, Jacques Mosseri, some six decades earlier. From other caches, most notably that assembled by Solomon Schechter, the world of Jewish scholarship already recognized the long-concealed storage space of Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue as an incomparable source of Jewish books, documents and fragments that dated back at least 1,000 years. Not all of them were sacred texts; some were just “sacred trash,” as Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole titled their superb 2011 book about the genizah: letters, co ....
By Pearl Markovitz | January 28, 2021 Teaneck’s Rinat Yisrael recently featured Professor Eve Krakowski, assistant professor of medieval Jewish History at Princeton, in a discussion of a controversial Maimonidean edict found among the thousands of rediscovered documents from the 1,000-year-old Cairo Genizah. At the suggestion of her son Yitz, a Ph.D. student in the department of religion at Princeton University, Rinat’s Adult Education Chair Faye Landes was directed to award-winning filmmaker Michelle Paymar, whose recent documentary “From Cairo to the Cloud” provides the extraordinary story of the journey of the Cairo Genizah from medieval Cairo to our home computers via the cloud. The screening of the film will take place on Motzei Shabbat, January 31 at 8 p.m.. ....
Trip Overview Stand in awe before the towering achievements of Ancient Egypt. Begin with two nights in the capital of Cairo. Venture to nearby Giza for a tour of the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx, and the Valley Temple of Chephren. Fly to Abu Simbel to view the temples of Ramses II and Queen Nefertari, which feature massive carvings on cliff faces. Board a plane to Aswan embark on a four-night Nile River voyage aboard Sanctuary Nile Adventurer. Highlights include the Philae Temple, a sacred site rescued from floodwaters; the well-preserved Temple of Horus in Edfu; and the 3,400-year-old Luxor Temple. Wander through the tombs and temples at the UNESCO-listed necropolis at ancient Thebes. Drive to Sakkara, necropolis of the Old Kingdom, to visit the Step Pyramid of King Zoser, built in the 27th century B.C. Tour the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, whose collection includes treasures from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Back in Cairo, focus on the city’s Coptic and Islamic influence ....