Another popular book on the Cairo Geniza

ANOTHER POPULAR BOOK ON THE CAIRO GENIZA is excerpted by The Jewish Week:

The Living Sea Scrolls

Inside a ‘battlefield of books,’
a rich mosaic of Egyptian Jewish life.

Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole
Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

This April, the Schocken / Nextbook Jewish Encounters series will publish “Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza” by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole, which tells in dynamic fashion the story of the retrieval of what has often been called the greatest discovery of Jewish manuscripts ever made. “No longer can we speak of the seven wonders of the world —” Cynthia Ozick has written of the Geniza and of “Sacred Trash.” “In this astounding and acutely relevant tale, Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole have uncovered a remarkable eighth; and in its connection to our own humanity, it surpasses all the rest.” What follows is a small piece of that wondrous story.

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The excerpted passage is a nice brief account of the history and importance of the Cairo Geniza.

As indicated above, another popular book on the Geniza has been recently published, with a rather similar title: Sacred Treasure: The Cairo Geniza, by Mark Glickman. I have noted it here (and follow the links).