Sacred Trash The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza【電子書籍】[ Adina Hoffman ]

＜p＞**NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST＜/p＞ ＜p＞Part of the Jewish Encounter series**＜/p＞ ＜p＞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.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞Sacred Trash,＜/em＞ 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 the．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る