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Sacred Trash by Adina Hoffman, Peter Cole - Penguin Random House

Sacred Trash tells the remarkable story of the Cairo Geniza—a synagogue repository for worn-out texts that turned out to contain the most vital ...

Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza

Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza ... Mysterious travel by steamer and train. Piles of bakshish paid for the privilege of crawling ...

Sacred Trash - Nextbook Press

“Sacred Trash is a jewel of a book: a lively and deeply informed account of the Cairo Geniza, a magnificent Egyptian treasure-house of Jewish religion, ...

Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza by ...

Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza by Adina Hoffman, Peter Cole, S. Schechter.

Sacred Trash - Middle East Forum

Sacred Trash traces the evolution of focus on the geniza from biblical criticism to poetry to history. The book is beautifully written and commended.

The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza by Adina Ho

Sacred Trash tells the remarkable story of the Cairo Geniza—a synagogue repository for worn-out texts that turned out to contain the most vital cache of Jewish ...

Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza

In Sacred Trash, MacArthur-winning poet and translator Peter Cole and acclaimed essayist Adina Hoffman tell the story of the retrieval from an Egyptian geniza, ...

Book Review: Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo ...

Book Review: Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza ... While Europe in the Middle Ages was characterized by an agrarian feudal economy, in ...

Sacred Trash | Penguin Random House Secondary Education

In Sacred Trash, MacArthur-winning poet and translator Peter Cole and acclaimed essayist Adina Hoffman tell the story of the retrieval from an Egyptian geniza—a ...

Book Review - Sacred Trash - By Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole

The story told by “Sacred Trash” is both lively and elevating; it is best read as an extended act of celebration of Cairo's historical Jewish community.

Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza

In Sacred Trash, MacArthur-winning poet and translator Peter Cole and acclaimed essayist Adina Hoffman tell the story of the retrieval from an ...

Buried Treasure - Jewish Review of Books

Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole. Schocken/Nextbook, 304 pp., $26.95

Sacred trash: the lost and found world of the Cairo Geniza ...

Sacred trash: the lost and found world of the Cairo Geniza. (Hardcover). Hoffman, Adina / Cole, Peter. Published by New York: Nextbook / Schocken, 2011. First ...

Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza

Sacred Trash tells the remarkable story of the Cairo Geniza--a synagogue repository for worn-out texts that turned out to contain the most vital cache of ...

Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza

Solomon Schechter, Jefim Hayyim Schirmann, Ezra Fleischer, and S.D. Goitein unearthed and studied the materials, while the "sacred trash" brought such topics as ...

Sacred Trash by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole

Now in paperback, the dramatic story behind the discovery and reclamation of nine hundred years' worth of discarded Hebrew texts--parchment fragments of the ...

Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza

Sacred Trash tells the remarkable story of the Cairo Geniza—a synagogue repository for worn-out texts that turned out to contain the most vital cache of Jewish ...

Sacred Trash - New York Public Library - OverDrive

Title details for Sacred Trash by Adina Hoffman - Wait list. Sacred Trash. The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza. by Adina Hoffman · Peter Cole. ebook. 0 ...

Sacred Trash: How to Dismantle a Library - The Millions

Sacred Trash: How to Dismantle a Library. Essays · Sara Lippmann May 23, 2019 | 8 min read. Twitter Share. We've been given marching orders, but I can't ...

SACRED TRASH - Kirkus Reviews

SACRED TRASH. THE LOST AND FOUND WORLD OF THE CAIRO GENIZA. by Adina Hoffman & Peter Cole ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 5, 2011. An accessible, neatly narrated ...