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July 9, 2018

What the Afghan Genizah Reveals about Persian and Central Asian Jewry

Jews of the Silk Road.

Several years ago, a cache of some 1,000 manuscripts—most of which are from 12th and 13th centuries—was discovered in Afghanistan’s Samangan province. Aram Yardumian reports on the archive’s contents and the results of recent research into these documents:

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July 9, 2018

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