PART I: RESOURCES
 
THE CAIRO GENIZAH
 
The Friedberg Genizah Project: 
http://www.genizah.org/Index.aspx
 
The Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit:
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Taylor-Schechter/
 
The Princeton Genizah Project:
http://www.princeton.edu/~geniza/index.html
 
Popular Books on the Cairo Genizah:
 
Stefan Reif, A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo.
 
Peter Cole and Adina Hoffman, Sacred Trash.
 
Collections of Sources from the Genizah and Studies based on the Genizah:
 
Nehemiah Allony, The Jewish Library in the Middle Ages — Book Lists from the Cairo Genizah, 

Edited by Miriam Frenkel and Haggai Ben-Shammai, with the participation of Moshe Sokolow. 

Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institue, 2006 [Hebrew].
 
Cohen, Mark. Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt. Princeton 

University Press, 2005. 
 
Ezra Fleischer and Moshe Gil, Yehudah Halevi and His Circle: 55 Documents from the Genizah. 

Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 2001.
 
Goitein, Shlomo Dov. A Mediterranean Society. 5 vols. University of California Press, 1967-1988.
 
Goitein, Shlomo Dov. Medieval Jewish Traders. Princeton University Press, 1973.
 
Goitein, Shlomo Dov and Mordechai Friedman. Sefer Hodu. 3 vols. Jerusalem, 2009-2010. 
 
Mordechai Friedman. Jewish Marriage in Palestine: A Cairo Geniza Study. I: The Ketubba 

Traditions of Eretz Israel; II: The Ketubba Texts. Tel- Aviv and New York (Tel-Aviv University 

and The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1980-1).
 
Mordechai Friedman. Jewish Polygyny in the Middle Ages: New Documents from the Cairo 

Geniza. The Bialik Institute, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University, 1986 [Hebrew].
 

Moshe Gil. Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Genizah. Leiden: E. J.
Brill, 1976.

 
Louis Ginzberg, Geonica:
http://www.archive.org/stream/geonicaginz01ginziala/geonicaginz01ginziala_djvu.txt
 

Jacob Mann, The Jews in Egypt and in Palestine under the Fatimid Caliphs, 2 vols. 1920–22.

http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924082467972#page/n5/mode/2up

http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924082467980#page/n5/mode/2up

Jacob Mann, Texts and Studies in Jewish History and Literature. 2 vols. Philadelphia: The
Jewish Publication Society of America, 1935.

Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith. Karaite Marriage Documents from the Cairo Genizah. Leiden: E.
J. Brill, 1998.

Rustow, Marina. Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008.

 
Naphtali Wieder, Islamic Influences on Jewish Worship:
http://archive.org/details/The_Islamic_Influences_on_The_Jewish_Worship
 
 
THE FIRKOVITCH COLLECTIONS
 
See David Sklare chapter in Meira Polliack, ed., Karaite Judaism (Brill, 2003).
 
 
 

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