Book Review: Rebecca J. W. Jefferson, The Cairo Genizah and the Age of Discovery in Egypt: The History and Provenance of a Jewish Archive. London: I. B. Tauris & Company Limited, 2022. xiv, 267 p. ISBN: 9781788319638

The Cairo Genizah and the Age of Discovery in Egypt: The History and Provenance of a Jewish Archive is a book about fragments-and about fragmentation, and the actors and processes behind it.Alongside climate conditions, misuse, or neglect, the book shows fragmentation as a result of multiple intersecting personalities, motivations, and circumstances that are inexorably tied to the violence of European imperialism and colonialism.