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May 18, 2023

The Afghan Genizah Sees the Light of Day

Rare documentation of a community destroyed by the Mongol horde.

Beginning in 2013, the National Library of Israel succeeded in acquiring a trove of documents relating to the Jewish community of medieval Afghanistan, known informally as the Afghan Genizah. Some items are now being put on display for the first time. Yitzhak Tesler reports:

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