Description: The Cairo Genizah is a collection of more than a million pages of a wide variety of medieval documents written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic, Judaeo-Persian and even Yiddish. They were found in a Synagogue storeroom in Old Cairo at the end of the 19 century. They are now housed in several libraries in Europe and the United States. The documents include Bible, commentaries on the Bible, Rabbinic texts such as the Talmud and Midrash, biblical and rabbinic dictionaries, halakhic works, poetry and prayers, philosophical and polemic treatises, deeds, documents, official and personal letters. Most date from the eighth century to the fifteenth century but there are a few later ones. They are important both for the history of Judaism and Jewish life and also for medieval Egyptian history. The Friedberg Genizah Project has three aims: * to help complete the cataloging of the documents and produce an on-line union catalog of all the texts. * to transcribe as many texts as possible and make them available to scholars and others. * to promote research in the Cairo Genizah. For further information please contact: info@genizah-project.org The Friedberg Genizah Project began in 1999 on the initiative of Mr. Albert D. Friedberg of Toronto, Canada, and is underwritten by a grant from the Buckingham Foundation (Toronto, Canada).