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14 May 2024: The Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection is a window on the medieval world and has been colourfully described as ‘a refuge for writings’ and ‘a battlefield of books’. ... Thinking about visiting the Library to consult or view the Collection?

14 May 2024: These types of lists are not particularly rare in the Geniza collection, and most offer little more than the accents already known from biblical recitation traditions, but this one caught my

14 May 2024: It was, then “natural that no letters from those distant parts have found their way into the Geniza.”. ... But after this letter, the next two documents in Goitein’s collection – the Maimuni cases – both concern traders who died in Southeast

14 May 2024: I’ve recently spent a lot of time working my way through the ENA collection at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York with some colleagues from the Princeton Geniza Lab. ... an excellent (though a little outdated) collection of different

14 May 2024: The first came from a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton, Naïm Vanthieghem, who identified it in the Kaufmann collection in Budapest as he helped me trawl the Geniza for Arabic-script material ... Geniza collection.

14 May 2024: However, thanks to the recent generosity of the Littman Foundation, the Genizah Research Unit is now able to offer organised visits to the Collection. ... I am writing to say thank you once again for such a fascinating and inspirational talk and

14 Nov 2018: collection. Over the last few years CUL’s Conservation Department has been conserving the medieval paper and parchment, and in 2015. ... A visitor writes: “I am writing to say thank you once again for such a fascinating and inspirational talk and

The team was particularly large at that point, as we had taken on additional researchers for an AHRC cataloguing project, and were digitising the collection thanks to the Friedberg Geniza Project.