"The Jews used to deposit all sorts of written and printed material in such rooms which were provided in or near their synagogues; they were not intended to be kept as in archives, but were to remain there undisturbed for a certain time. The Jews were afraid lest such writings which might contain the name of God should be profaned by misuse. So such written—and in later times also printed—matter was taken from time to time to consecrated ground and buried; thus it perished."
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Paul E. Kahle: The Cairo Geniza, Second Edition, ch. 1, "General Introduction", p. 4. Basil Blackwell (1959).
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