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- ↑ Glickman, Mark S.; Glickman, Rabbi Mark S. (March 2012). Sacred Treasure-The Cairo Genizah: The Amazing Discoveries of Forgotten Jewish History in an Egyptian Synagogue Attic. Jewish Lights Publishing. ISBN 978-1-58023-512-9.
- ↑ Hoffman, Adina; Cole, Peter (2011). Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza. Nextbook. ISBN 978-0-8052-1223-5.
- ↑ Paul Kahle, The Cairo Geniza: The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy 1941, London, 1947.
- ↑ Montville, Joseph V. (2011-11-16). History as Prelude: Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-6815-8.
- ↑ Rustow, Marina (2020-01-14). The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-18952-9.
- ↑ "History". pr.genizah.org. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
