A bookshelf in a religious Jewish home contains, aside from prayer books, a humash (printed Torah volume), Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), part of the Talmud (the Oral Torah) and the Pesach Haggadah (the text that sets forth the order of the Seder meal at the start of Pesach). A large amount of extant calendars that contain the dates of Jewish holidays and also of Christian markets provide evidence of trips made by local Jewish businessmen. Various guides to Jewish religious law and customs also made their way from study halls to genizot. Occasionally, entirely non-religious texts, such as recipes and slips of paper with various notes, were also placed in genizot.
