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Definition of Genizah
1. Noun. A storeroom located in or by a synagogue where are kept sacred Hebrew books that cannot be used (through damage or heretical teachings), but which cannot be discarded because they contain God's name. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Genizah
1. a room in a synagogue [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genizah
Literary usage of Genizah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geonica by Louis Ginzberg (1909)
"exaggeration in maintaining that the discovery of the genizah by Prof. Solomon
Schechter was in no other department of Jewish learning so epoch- making as ..."
2. Studies in Judaism: Second Series by Solomon Schechter (1908)
"It was such a genizah that I set out to visit in the middle of December, 1896.
... The conviction of the importance of its genizah had grown upon me as I ..."
3. Journal of Theological Studies by Oxford Journals (Oxford University Press) (1906)
"... genizah Cambridge documents—HSQ H ENRIQUES The Civil of English Jews—MN ADLER
... HIRSCHFELD Arabic portion of the Cairo genizah at Cambridge (nth art. ..."
4. The Hebrew Scriptures in the Making by Max Leopold Margolis (1922)
"_ . , To understand aright the genizah and its ... So it is that in the famous
Cairo genizah, of biblical books (and for that matter of works of the ..."
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