Afghan Geniza
A letter in Judeo-Persian dealing with financial and family matters (Afghan Genizah collection at the National Library of Israel).
The Afghan Geniza is a collection of thousands of Jewish manuscript fragments found in caves in Afghanistan. Genizah is Hebrew for storeroom.
The manuscripts include writings in Hebrew, Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic and Judeo-Persian, which are written in Hebrew letters.[1] Some of them are 1,000 years old; they were found in caves that had been used as hideouts by Taliban.[2]
In 2013, the National Library of Israel announced that it had purchased 29 pages from this cache of documents.[3] and another 250 or so in 2016.
See also[]
- Cairo Geniza
- Elephantine papyri
- History of the Jews in Afghanistan
References[]
- ^ Afghan Genizah Manuscripts Revealing Jewish Presence Unveiled At Israeli Library
- ^ "Ancient manuscripts indicate Jewish community once thrived in Afghanistan". CBS. 3 January 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
- ^ Israel's National Library buys 1,000-year-old Jewish documents from Afghanistan, Haaretz
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