Afghan Geniza

The Afghan Geniza is a collection of thousands of Jewish manuscript fragments found in caves in Afghanistan. Genizah is Hebrew for storeroom.

A letter in Judeo-Persian dealing with financial and family matters (Afghan Genizah collection at the National Library of Israel).

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

In 2013, the National Library of Israel announced that it had purchased 29 pages from this cache of documents.[3] and another 250 or so in 2016.

See also

References
  1. Afghan Genizah Manuscripts Revealing Jewish Presence Unveiled At Israeli Library
  2. "Ancient manuscripts indicate Jewish community once thrived in Afghanistan". CBS. 3 January 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  3. Israel's National Library buys 1,000-year-old Jewish documents from Afghanistan, Haaretz
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