Princeton Geniza Lab
@genizalab.bsky.social
Digitizing Cairo Geniza documents since 1985.
https://genizalab.princeton.edu/, https://geniza.princeton.edu
https://genizalab.princeton.edu/, https://geniza.princeton.edu
For the first time since the Princeton Geniza Project began in 1986, we have published our metadata collated from over 30,000 Geniza documents and the People, Places, and histories of the Middle East and premodern Jewish communities found therein!
zenodo.org/records/1583...
zenodo.org/records/1583...
Princeton Geniza Project Dataset
Since 1986, the Princeton Geniza Lab has been studying and digitizing historical documents from the Cairo Geniza, a cache of roughly 400,000 fragments of paper and parchment preserved in a medieval Eg...
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July 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
For the first time since the Princeton Geniza Project began in 1986, we have published our metadata collated from over 30,000 Geniza documents and the People, Places, and histories of the Middle East and premodern Jewish communities found therein!
zenodo.org/records/1583...
zenodo.org/records/1583...
Given the expanded capabilities of the new PGP site (v4), we're finally retiring PGPv3. We chose April 3, 2025 as its final date, S. D. Goitein's 125th birthday. Many thanks to Ben Johnston of @mcgrawect for building the site & running it. You can find the archived content here:
March 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Given the expanded capabilities of the new PGP site (v4), we're finally retiring PGPv3. We chose April 3, 2025 as its final date, S. D. Goitein's 125th birthday. Many thanks to Ben Johnston of @mcgrawect for building the site & running it. You can find the archived content here:
A gorgeous prayerbook (maḥzor) for the high holidays copied in Mallorca(!) in 1332 CE, recently spotted by PGP researcher Tani Robinson.
geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...
geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...
December 29, 2024 at 6:39 AM
A gorgeous prayerbook (maḥzor) for the high holidays copied in Mallorca(!) in 1332 CE, recently spotted by PGP researcher Tani Robinson.
geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...
geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...
"He disdains me because I have little pomposity" (وقد حقرني لحال انني قليل البهرجة) - a humble teacher writing about his rich, apparently pompous uncle (Avraham Ibn Yiju)
Document record:
geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...
Published edition:
princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-indi...
Document record:
geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...
Published edition:
princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-indi...
November 28, 2024 at 4:24 AM
"He disdains me because I have little pomposity" (وقد حقرني لحال انني قليل البهرجة) - a humble teacher writing about his rich, apparently pompous uncle (Avraham Ibn Yiju)
Document record:
geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...
Published edition:
princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-indi...
Document record:
geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...
Published edition:
princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-indi...
"When I parted from you, I intended to sail to the island of Cyprus, but a strong storm diverted the boat to Tarsus. I was very much afraid that the king would take hold of me and detain me. . . ." Letter from Alexandria to Cairo, ~1212 CE
geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...
geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...
November 27, 2024 at 4:15 PM
"When I parted from you, I intended to sail to the island of Cyprus, but a strong storm diverted the boat to Tarsus. I was very much afraid that the king would take hold of me and detain me. . . ." Letter from Alexandria to Cairo, ~1212 CE
geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...
geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...
A very sweet letter reminiscing on a visit to the house of Maimonides, who is depicted here enjoying lemon drops and playing with a cute toddler.
"I kissed his noble hand, and he received us with a most cordial welcome. He said to me, 'Come and sit...'"
geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...
"I kissed his noble hand, and he received us with a most cordial welcome. He said to me, 'Come and sit...'"
geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...
Letter: T-S 8J14.18
Letter from a member of the nasi family of Mosul addressed to Shelomo b. Yishay. Dating: the events described in…
geniza.princeton.edu
November 27, 2024 at 4:14 PM
A very sweet letter reminiscing on a visit to the house of Maimonides, who is depicted here enjoying lemon drops and playing with a cute toddler.
"I kissed his noble hand, and he received us with a most cordial welcome. He said to me, 'Come and sit...'"
geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...
"I kissed his noble hand, and he received us with a most cordial welcome. He said to me, 'Come and sit...'"
geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...
Not to be missed! A landmark new book in Arabic documentary legal studies by Mathieu Tillier and Naïm Vanthieghem. Includes many previously unidentified Cairo Geniza fragments. Pictured: geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...
November 27, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Not to be missed! A landmark new book in Arabic documentary legal studies by Mathieu Tillier and Naïm Vanthieghem. Includes many previously unidentified Cairo Geniza fragments. Pictured: geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...
A Judaeo-Arabic text about Alexander the Great, with the text of a letter from the Persian king Darius ("king of kings and master of the nations of the world"), commands Alexander to submit to him: geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...
Literary text: T-S K25.262
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic in two columns about Alexander the Great. Narrating how when Alexander went east to wage war…
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November 27, 2024 at 4:10 PM
A Judaeo-Arabic text about Alexander the Great, with the text of a letter from the Persian king Darius ("king of kings and master of the nations of the world"), commands Alexander to submit to him: geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...