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Books by Peter Cole

Sacred Trash

Now in paperback, the dramatic story behind the discovery and reclamation of nine hundred years' worth of discarded Hebrew texts--parchment fragments of the Bible and Talmud, medieval poetry, legal and commercial documents, medical writings, and personal accounts of everyday middle-class life--rescued from a decaying manuscript repository in a once-vibrant Cairo synagogue.

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