- “The Special Collections Division of The University of Manchester Library holds a collection of nearly 15,000 fragments from the Genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo. They were purchased from the estate of Dr Moses Gaster in 1954. They are mostly written in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and Arabic but there are also a few Judeo-Spanish, French, and Coptic items and a Yiddish (B 6619) and an Ottoman Turkish piece (Ar. 400). About 90% of the items are on paper, the remainder on parchment. Most of them are manuscripts but there are printed texts too….The fragments cover a wide range of topics including religious and literary texts, documentary sources, letters, and material relating to grammar, philosophy, medicine, astrology, and astronomy. The Gaster Genizah Collection is divided into more than a dozen series, that have been digitised or catalogued to various degrees.”