Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza2011
About this book
Traces the efforts of two women scholars who recovered what has become the most vital cache of Hebrew manuscripts ever discovered, in an account that explains what the findings reveal about Mediterranean Judaism.
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- Published
- 2011
- ISBN-10
- 0805242589
About Adina Hoffman
Adina Hoffman is an American writer whose work blends literary and documentary elements. Her books concern, among other things, the "lives and afterlives of people, movies, islands, books, and certain city streets."
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