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March 10, 2026

An Apocalyptic Jewish Document from the Time of the Crusades

From the Cairo Geniza.

Discovered inside the Ben Ezra synagogue in the old part of the city, the Cairo Geniza—a repository of discarded manuscripts—is one of the most remarkable sources for understanding Jewish history. Sebastiano Crestani and Friederike S. Schmidt describe February’s “fragment of the month,” written in Arabic using Hebrew characters: 

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