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China Daily | Updated: 2011-05-27 08:01
Secrets of Cairo stash revealed
It was about 120 years ago that a cache of manuscripts - mostly in tatters - was discovered in an old synagogue in Cairo, where they had remained hidden for centuries. One early examiner of the cache described the scene as a "battlefi eld of books".
Adina Hoffman's and Peter Cole's book Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza(Nextbook/Schocken) is both heterogeneous and comprehensive.
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