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Solomon Schechter sits at a table covered with manuscript fragments from the Cairo Geniza, about 1898.

The Letters Left Waiting in the Cairo Geniza

A mother waits for news, a merchant reroutes his flax, and a letter from Aden proves a death. The Cairo Geniza preserves the daily stakes of a connected medieval world.

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