Genizah - judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Spanish, Yiddish

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A genizah (or geniza; Hebrew: "storage"; plural: genizot or genizoth or genizahs)cite_ref-0 is the store-room or depository in a Jewish synagogue (or cemetery), usually specifically for worn-out Hebrew-language books and papers on religious topics that were stored there before they could receive a proper cemetery burial, it being forbidden to throw away writings containing the name of God (even personal letters and legal contracts could open with an invocation of God). In practice, genizot also contained writings of a secular nature, with or without the customary opening invocation, and also contained writings in other Jewish languages that use the Hebrew alphabet (Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Spanish, Yiddish).

Product details

• Assisted by: Jerold Angelus (Editor)
• Publisher: Alphascript Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2012
• EAN: 9786138353119
• ISBN: 9786138353119
• No. of pages: 96
• Subject: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric