Fundraising Effort Successful: Oxford and Cambridge Universities Purchase Collection of Ancient Hebrew and Arabic Manuscripts
A fundraising appeal by Oxford and Cambridge universities to buy a collection of 1,000-year-old Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts has been successful.
The universities raised £1.2m to buy The Lewis-Gibson Genizah Collection from the United Reform Church’s Westminster College.
The collection is made up of 1,700 document fragments saved from Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue.
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More in: Oxbridge to jointly purchase ancient Jewish archive (via Haaretz)
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See Also: Treasures In The Wall (via The New Yorker; March 1, 2013)
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