Husband and wife team Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole, authors of “Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza” (Schocken/Nextbook: $26.95), share far more than a marriage—they enjoy a ...

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 ...

Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole’s Sacred Trash offers a precious meditation on how the discovery of hidden hoards of history can transform our worlds. April 28 is “Take Our Daughters to Work Day”: not a ...

A well-known collection of historical texts, the Cairo Genizah is one of the most valuable sources of primary documents for medieval historians and religious scholars. The 350,000 fragments found in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A researcher of MiDRASH, a project dedicated to analysing the National Library of Israel’s digital database of all known Hebrew ...

The Cairo Genizah is an irreplaceable repository for information about 1,000 years of human history. But the 350,000 fragments that make up the Genizah are scattered worldwide. Researchers are now ...