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Genizah gets £1 million grant

Genizah gets £1 million grant

June 5, 2008 23:00

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Cambridge University’s Genizah Unit has received a grant of more than £1 million from the Friedberg Genizah Project to help digitise the nearly 200,000 fragments of ancient Jewish manuscripts in its collection.

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