The John Rylands Cairo Genizah Project

The University of Manchester holds a collection of around 11,000 fragments, mostly written in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic, from the Genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo dating from the 10th to the 19th century AD and including religious and literary texts, documentary sources, letters, and material relating to grammar, philosophy, medicine, astrology and astronomy. The two main objectives of the Rylands Cairo Genizah Project are to photograph both recto and verso of all these fragments, and to make the images available with their catalogue descriptions as part of a searchable and browseable catalogue.