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84:, and the lead researcher of the Rav-Milim project was enlisted for the Friedberg Project and implemented it with the help of a team of researchers and programmers. Today, the Geniza website, with over 400,000 digital images is the largest virtual collection of medieval Hebrew manuscripts in the world. The site is equipped with advanced software and research tools, and contains, in addition to the images, close to half a million other data items collected from the fruits of a century of genizah research.
104:- including pictures and copies of all the witnesses of the Talmudic text: genizah passages, manuscripts and old prints. The site also includes a computerized synopsis for the entire Talmud in a number of viewing options that allow the user to highlight changes. The site also includes the collection of manuscripts of Talmudic literature, edited by Prof. Yaakov Sussman including hundreds of corrections. The academic director was Dr. Menachem Katz.
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