Mailonline: A collection of manuscripts from caves in Afghanistan has provided the first evidence of Jewish communities living in the devoutly Muslim country 1,000 years ago.
The cache of Hebrew documents are thought to have originated from the country’s northeast region, a Taliban stronghold.
The documents, which include biblical commentaries, personal letters and financial records, were unveiled by Israel’s National Library after being purchased from private dealers.
Significant: Some of the Hebrew documents purchased by Israel’s National Archive, which have been described by researchers as one of the most important ever stashes of Jewish documents ever found.
Researchers have described the collection as one of the greatest Jewish archives ever found.
The stash has been dubbed the ‘Afghan Genizah’. Genizah is a Hebrew term that loosely translates as ‘storage’ and refers to a storeroom adjacent to a synagogue or Jewish cemetery where Hebrew-language books and papers are kept.
Jewish law forbids any writings containing the formal names of God to be thrown away, so the documents are either buried or stashed away.
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Afghan government should claim these documents as historical artifacts of Afghanistan.
Due to inscrupulous western buyers promising good money, poor Afghan are being lured into digging and selling artifacts, which earlier the Afghan never bothered with. Israeli agents taking advantage of the insecure situation have stolen thausands of artifacts from Iraq and now from Afghanistan.
World community should help the Afghans to protect their historical heritage.