Sacred Trash

The Cairo Geniza is by many accounts the most vital cache of Jewish texts ever found— arguably more important than the Dead Sea Scrolls. Tonight Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole, coauthors of the acclaimed Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, will take us inside this astonishing time capsule and the equally remarkable story of its ongoing discovery. A tale of buried scholarly treasure, their Geniza story weaves together unforgettable portraits of the scholar-heroes at the center of this saga with a panoramic view of the once-vibrant Mediterranean Judaism of the Middle Ages.