Book Review: Rebecca J. W. Jefferson, The Cairo Genizah and the Age of Discovery in Egypt: The History and Provenance of a Jewish Archive. London: I. B. Tauris & Company Limited, 2022. xiv, 267 p. ISBN: 9781788319638

Amalia S. Levi

doi:10.14263/23/2024/1395

Book Review: Rebecca J. W. Jefferson, The Cairo Genizah and the Age of Discovery in Egypt: The History and Provenance of a Jewish Archive. London: I. B. Tauris & Company Limited, 2022. xiv, 267 p. ISBN: 9781788319638

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Amalia S. Levi Bonn University https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3117-2434

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https://doi.org/10.14263/23/2024/1395

Keywords:

provenance, Provenance research, archival collections, dispersed collections, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection, collection development

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A book label of the Kedem bookstore in Tel Aviv, established there after partner Lipa Bronstein of the Berlin store (opened 1921) escaped the Nazis in 1938. The store address, at the corner of Yonah ha-Navi and Allenby streets, displays an abbreviation (str.) for the word Strasse (street, in German), creating Hebrew-German portmanteau words. See Zvi Barsky's article in this issue, "Jewish immigrant booksellers from Germany and Central Europe in Palestine, 1933–1939."

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2024-12-29

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S. Levi, Amalia. 2024. “Book Review: Rebecca J. W. Jefferson, The Cairo Genizah and the Age of Discovery in Egypt: The History and Provenance of a Jewish Archive. London: I. B. Tauris & Company Limited, 2022. Xiv, 267 P. ISBN: 9781788319638”. Judaica Librarianship 23 (December):179-82. https://doi.org/10.14263/23/2024/1395.