Published July 8, 2025 | Version v1.0.0
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Princeton Geniza Project Dataset

Creators

  • 1. ROR icon Princeton University

Contributors

  • 1. ROR icon Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
  • 2. ROR icon Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • 3. Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah
  • 4. ROR icon Princeton University
  • 5. ROR icon University of Haifa
  • 6. Stanford University Libraries

Description

Since 1986, the Princeton Geniza Lab has been studying and digitizing historical documents from the Cairo Geniza, a cache of roughly 400,000 fragments of paper and parchment preserved in a medieval Egyptian synagogue.

We study the geniza's ephemeral, everyday texts — unique sources for the history of the Middle East and of premodern Jewish communities from Spain to Sumatra. The documents include letters, legal documents, accounts and lists.

This dataset is the first formal publication of metadata from the Princeton Geniza Project to make geniza documents available to researchers and the interested public.

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Additional details

Related works

Is supplement to
Software: https://github.com/princetongenizalab/pgp-metadata/tree/v1.0.0 (URL)

Dates

Collected
1986/2025

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/princetongenizalab/pgp-metadata
Development Status
Active