From Cairo to the Cloud

From Cairo to the Cloud

Date

Nov 21 2019
, 6:30PM- 8:30PM

The World of the Cairo Geniza

Film Screening

Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 6:30 pm

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From Cairo to the Cloud – The World of the Cairo Geniza tells the story of an astonishing collection of ancient manuscripts hidden for centuries in a Cairo synagogue, and their remarkable odyssey to the modern world.

The Cairo Geniza revolutionized our understanding of Jewish history and illuminated a thousand years of vibrant Jewish life in the heart of the Islamic world. An accidental archive of more than half a million documents, the Cairo Geniza reveals the richness of Judeo-Arabic culture and reflects periods of relative religious coexistence nearly unimaginable today.

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