Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
Language: English
Published by Schocken Books, New York, 2011
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Fine copy in very good dust jacket with minor wear. Later printing. Hardcover. 283 pp with index. MacAruthur-winning poet Peter Cole and essayist Adina Hoffman tell the story of the retrieval of the most vital cache of Jewish manuscripts ever discovered. Found in an Egyptian geniza, or repository for worn-out texts, a buried scholarly treasure yielded medieval documents, letters, poems, money orders, fashion lists, prescriptions, petitions and mysterious magical charms.
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- Title
- Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
- Author
- Adina Hoffman; Peter Cole
- Publisher
- Schocken Books, New York
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0805242589
- ISBN 13
- 9780805242584
- Edition
- Later printing.
- Series
- Book 1 of 17: Jewish Encounters Series
- Seller catalogs
- History
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect several pieces of rag paper and parchment. It was the unlikely start to what would prove a remarkable, continent-hopping, century-crossing saga, and one that in many ways has revolutionized our sense of what it means to lead a Jewish life.
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, or repository for worn-out texts, of the most vital cache of Jewish manuscripts ever discovered. This tale of buried scholarly treasure weaves together unforgettable portraits of Solomon Schechter and the other heroes of this drama with explorations of the medieval documents themselves—letters and poems, wills and marriage contracts, Bibles, money orders, fiery dissenting tracts, fashion-conscious trousseaux lists, prescriptions, petitions, and mysterious magical charms. Presenting a panoramic view of nine hundred years of vibrant Mediterranean Judaism, Hoffman and Cole bring modern readers into the heart of this little-known trove, whose contents have rightly been dubbed “the Living Sea Scrolls.” Part biography and part meditation on the supreme value the Jewish people has long placed on the written word, Sacred Trash is above all a gripping tale of adventure and redemption.
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About the Author
Adina Hoffman is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood and My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century, which was named a best book of 2009 by the Barnes & Noble Review.
Peter Cole’s most recent book of poems is Things on Which I’ve Stumbled. His many volumes of award-winning translations include The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950––1492. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2007.
Hoffman and Cole live, together, in Jerusalem and New Haven.
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