http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=fdb_1314718443 Items in channel 'AfghanZionist' Thu, 23 May 2013 19:40:09 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=fdb_1314718443 Sat, 05 Jan 2013 01:38:03 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9bd_1357367601 AfghanZionist Israel's National Library has acquired 1,000-year-old Jewish documents discovered in Afghanistan. The collection of 29 pages includes writings by Saadia Gaon, and has been compared in significance to the 19th-century discovery of the Cairo Genizah. -The rare documents were discovered by villagers near the Iran-Uzbekistan border in a cave believed to be the home of a family of foxes. The manuscripts include religious writings, as well as letters and civil contracts written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic and Persian, and in a variety of alphabets. The cache, sometimes known as the Afghan Genizah, has "rocked the world of scholars" who study ancient manuscripts, as well as the dealers who buy and sell them, Haaretz reported. The key manuscript acquired by the library is a page from Saadia Gaon's commentary on the Bible. The document is a 10th-century commentary on Isaiah 34, written in Judeo-Arabic.Although the exact number of manuscripts in the Afghan Genizah is not known, it rumored to be in the hundreds - tiny in comparison to the 200,000 of the Cairo cache, which is spread among dealers in Switzerland, England and other nations, Haaretz said.An antiquities dealer in Jerusalem who obtained a small part of the collection offered it for sale to the National Library. The negotiations reportedly continued for over a year. The library refused to say how much it paid for the collection. "The area where the material was found, which today is considered remote, was an important cultural, political and economic center in the Medieval era," said the library's academic director, Prof. Haggai Ben-Shammai of Hebrew University. Historians have drawn parallels between the growth of the Jewish communities in the region to the Silk Road."Along the way, Jewish trading stations were established for Jewish traders, and over time they became Jewish communities. There is documentary evidence of Jews from Baghdad and Aleppo, of Karaite Jews and Jews from Persia, all of whom settled in the same region," Haaretz quoted Ben-Shammai as saying. Scholars at the library hope the ancient pages will shed light on the Jews who lived in this region. "We've had many historical sources on Jewish settlements in that area. This is the first time that we have a large collection of manuscripts that represents the culture of the Jews who lived there. Until today we had nothing about this," Ben-Shammai explained.The pages will be scanned and uploaded to the National Library's website in the near future. http://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/ancient-jewish-manuscripts-found-331/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9bd_1357367601 AfghanZionist 1,000 Year old Jewish Manuscripts found in Afghanistan Afghanistan Jewish Judaism Zion Israel 1,000 year old Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:05:59 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8de_1339811722 AfghanZionist Kabul http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8de_1339811722 AfghanZionist Morning Walk around Kabul Bazaar Afghanistan Kabul bazaar Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:40:16 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=50d_1331573508 AfghanZionist I'm sick of seeing videos of death and destruction from Afghanistan, so I decided to upload a positive video for a change, its an Afghan Music video,.not everything in Afghanistan is death and misery. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=50d_1331573508 AfghanZionist New Afghan Music Video Afghan Song Music Video