What is a genizah?

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  1. (Jewish law) A depository where sacred Hebrew books or other sacred items that by Jewish law cannot be disposed of are kept before they can be properly buried in a cemetery.
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The Genizah includes prenuptial agreements and marriage deeds from the eleventh century listing the full inventory of a woman's trousseau.
Practical Materia Medica of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah.
Documents in the Genizah also bring to life periods of persecution.
The manuscripts from the Cairo genizah are now preserved in many of the great libraries of the world.
In 1896 Solomon Schechter investigated a genizah in the old Ezra synagogue in Cairo.

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