Cairo · Genisa

Cairo · Genisa(: Cairo Geniza) is a Jewish document discovered in Ben Ezra Synagogue. When called a genisa document, it refers to Cairo · Genisa. Is a cabinet of documents that became unnecessary in medieval Hebrew and Jews have a custom of keeping and buying the paper on which the word "God" is written, and Cairo · Genisa was one of them.

Cairo Genena has over 600 years of documents from 956 to 1538, there are more than 250,000 leaf papers, of which there are tens of thousands of documents with value in historical research. Written in, and are used. Content includes court documents, contract documents, marriage documents, divorce documents, wills, property certificates, sales contracts, commercial correspondences, books, statements of accounts, personal letters and the like. The activities of the Jewish merchants in the Mediterranean were the most active during the 11th and 12th centuries, when Egypt prospered from the late 10th to the 11th century, while the political situation on one hand became unstable, many Jews I moved to Egypt and a network of Jewish people centered around Egypt was completed. Cairo · Genisa can read the activities of Jewish merchants in the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean at the time.

A document was discovered at the end of the 19th century and it was found in the collections around the world including libraries after it was leaked to Europe and the United States. Despite the high academic value, systematic research was done in the 1950s, and the results of the research are summarized in a book called "Mediterranean society".

Sources / References

• "Jewish merchants and sea ___ GENZA documents" (included "People of the Islamic world 4 maritime citizens") Toyo Keizai Inc., 1984.

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