Writing and Printing

European Geniza

The European Geniza (the Treasure of Europe, Italian Genizah or Genizat Germania) is an international collection of thousands of Jewish book or manuscript fragments in Hebrew that have been recovered from medieval or early modern book bindings and archival covers, i.e. "books within books", where they had been recycled by non-Jewish publishers, accidentally preserving them for later recovery and study. The name is a conceptual analogy to the Cairo Geniza, though it has no actual relationship to that collection, and there is no specific physical European geniza.

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• ▸History of Poland
• ▸Citadel of Namur
• ▸Umma Khan V

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