Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza by Peter Cole, Adina Hoffman

Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza

Peter Cole, Adina Hoffman

286 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced
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One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect several pieces of rag paper and par...

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