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.[1] Genizah is Hebrew for storeroom.

The manuscripts include writings in Hebrew, Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic and Judeo-Persian, which are written in Hebrew letters.[2] Some of them are 1,000 years old; they were found in caves that had been used as hideouts by Taliban.[3]

In 2013, the National Library of Israel announced that it had purchased 29 pages from this cache of documents.[4] and another 250 or so in 2016.

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References

  1. ↑ Mario Ledwith, Collection of ancient Hebrew manuscripts discovered in Afghanistan provide evidence Jewish people lived in country 1,000 years ago, The Daily Mail, 3 January 2013
  2. ↑ Afghan Genizah Manuscripts Revealing Jewish Presence Unveiled At Israeli Library
  3. ↑ "Ancient manuscripts indicate Jewish community once thrived in Afghanistan". CBS. 3 January 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  4. ↑ Israel's National Library buys 1,000-year-old Jewish documents from Afghanistan, Haaretz
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