Princeton Geniza Project datasets

Since 1986, the Princeton Geniza Lab has been studying and digitizing historical documents from the Cairo Geniza, a cache of roughly 400,000 fragments of paper and parchment preserved in a medieval Egyptian synagogue. We study the geniza's ephemeral, everyday texts — unique sources for the history of the Middle East and of premodern Jewish communities from Spain to Sumatra. The documents include letters, legal documents, accounts and lists. This metadata of Princeton Geniza Project continues to grow thanks to the efforts of the involved scholars and researchers. This is v1.1 of the dataset. V1.0 can be found here.