The Cairo Geniza, Under Piecemeal Restoration

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Eve Kahn

Fragments of the trove of texts known as the Cairo Geniza that have not yet been through a
treatment and restoration process. Credit Jewish Theological Seminary of America

NEW YORK---Experts at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan are puzzling over curly bits of ancient paper recovered from a closet in a Cairo synagogue. Boxfuls of the formerly soggy and bug-infested fragments are undergoing delicate repairs and digitization in the hope that the texts can be reunited, at least virtually, with the rest of their manuscript pages, which are scattered at institutions worldwide. [link]