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Schechter, Solomon
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Schechter, Solomon (1847–1915). Jewish scholar. Schechter came from an
ḥasidic background. Through his efforts, the manuscripts and fragments of the
Cairo Geniza were recovered and brought to England. From 1902, he was President of the
Jewish Theological Seminary, and his
Studies in Judaism (1896–1924) and
Some Aspects of Rabbinic Theology (1909) are classics of
Conservative Judaism. He defended traditional ways and values against what he took to be
assimilationist tendencies in
Reform Judaism.
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Exploring the Riches of the Cairo Geniza
Newspaper article from: Forward; 11/2/2001; 435 words
; ...2001 EXPLORING THE RICHES OF THE CAIRO GENIZA In 1896, two visitors to Cairo...movement in America, found the Cairo Geniza, an ancient repository located...Spertus Museum that examines the Cairo Geniza. Since there have been Jews...
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Cairo Geniza fragments on display in Jerusalem
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 6/3/1997; ; 426 words
; ...Post 06-03-1997 The Cairo Geniza provides proof that Jews...Arabic and Yiddish. The Geniza was uncovered by two sisters...Ezra Synagogue in the Old Cairo suburb of Fustat. The...monotheistic faiths. But the Geniza also contains documents...
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India traders of the middle ages; documents from the Cairo Geniza; "India book".(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2008; 567 words
; 9789004154728 India traders of the middle ages; documents from the Cairo Geniza; "India book". Goitein, S.D. and Mordechai Akiva Friedman. BRILL 2007 918 pages $336.00 Hardcover Etudes sur le judaisme...
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Qusayr and Geniza documents on the Indian Ocean trade.(Report)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...The documents from the Cairo Geniza identified by the late...in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza (Berkeley and Los Angeles...coming from outside of Cairo"; Guo's emphasis...opportunity to complement the Geniza data and test Goitein...
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Novel draws inspiration from geniza
Magazine article from: Washington Jewish Week; 3/20/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...use the discoveries from the Cairo Geniza for fodder for a novel. (A...women brought manuscripts from Cairo to England, where Solomon Schechter...Sirah. Schechter then went to Cairo and discovered the Geniza, which contained some 220...
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AMITAV GHOSH TO DISCUSS GENIZA PROJECT, APRIL 16
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/11/2007; 379 words
; ...Land': India, Egypt and the Cairo Geniza," referring to his 1992 book...organize and catalog items from the Cairo Geniza, a repository of Jewish documents...letters and other documents of the Cairo Geniza. Ghosh's works also include...
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Magische Texte aus der kairoer Geniza, vol. 1.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; This publication of new magical texts from the Cairo Geniza was undertaken by a highly competent research team and resulted in an excellent edition of fascinating texts. The transcription...
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Hebrew and Aramaic Incantation Texts from the Cairo Genizah: Selected Texts from Taylor-Schechter Box K1.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...addition to its many riches, the Cairo Geniza contains a lot of what were initially...of the magical fragments in the Cairo Geniza is now under way by Professor Schafer...of the greatest collections of Cairo Geniza documents, that of the University...
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Cairo's just desserts
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 6/6/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Post 06-06-1997 'Let them eat cake" took on a whole new meaning this week at the opening of the Cairo Geniza exhibition. Referring to a Geniza document in which an anonymous writer praised the hospitality of Maimonides, who served his guests...
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CAIRO to BEIRUT to DAMASCUS: Snapshots in anti-Israel feeling
Newspaper article from: Cleveland Jewish News; 3/7/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Judaism 2003 from my trip to Coptic Cairo. The area is a walled-in complex...alleyways that used to be home to Cairo's Coptic Christian community...a millennium. It is home to the Cairo Geniza (repository of ancient Jewish texts...
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Cairo geniza
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Cairo geniza , archive of ancient Jewish manuscripts found in the synagogue of Fostat-Cairo, Egypt (built 882). In the 1890s western scholars visited the synagogue and removed the materials to the Bodleian Library at the Univ. of Oxford...
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geniza
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
geniza A place in a synagogue for storing damaged, outdated, or heretical documents. Valuable MSS were discovered in a geniza at Cairo in 1896 which included part of the Hebrew text of Ecclesiasticus and fragments...
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Solomon Schechter
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Avot According to Rabbi Nathan. In 1897 he traveled to Cairo and brought back to Cambridge some 100,000 manuscript fragments from the famous Cairo geniza . Among these, Schechter identified the hitherto missing...
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Damascus Document
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
Damascus Document This Zadokite document accorded the symbol CD was discovered in the Cairo geniza by S. Schechter in 1896, and is dated in the 10th cent. CE . It is now known to be related to the Dead Sea scrolls . In two...
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Schechter, Solomon
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
...Schechter came from an ḥasidic background. Through his efforts, the manuscripts and fragments of the Cairo Geniza were recovered and brought to England. From 1902, he was President of the Jewish Theological Seminary , and his Studies...
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