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Cairo Geniza: subject headings

A geniza is a storage area, often in a out-of-the-way space in a synagogue, of sacred documents such as Bibles or prayerbooks when they are too worn to be used anymore but since they ares sacred cannot be thrown out.

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Konstanze Kunst
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Subjects: Judaic Studies