For nearly 1,000 years, the Cairo Codex, an illuminated Hebrew manuscript held by the Karaites in Cairo, mysteriously disappeared.

During the Black Death in the 14th century, the Jewish population in Europe was greatly affected.

The Jewish Museum in New York is currently hosting an exhibition called "The Sassoons," which explores the lives and legacy of the Sassoon family, a wealthy Jewish family with roots in Baghdad and connections to Bombay, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and London.

The European Genizah refers to thousands of Hebrew manuscript pages that were torn out and repurposed as book bindings or covers for archival files.