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Search site. Cambridge University Library. Hanukka 2021. Hanukka 2021. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Tue 30 Nov 2021. Happy Hanukka to all readers of Genizah Fragments! Yesterday evening (in what was possibly a first for the University Library?) a

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See to order. 2024 marks 50 years since the founding of the Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library. ... By Ben Outhwaite on Fri 27 Oct 2023. Today we are announcing a new piece of Genizah research and a new book in the field of book

Search site. Cambridge University Library. A shopping list for Shavuot. A shopping list for Shavuot. T-S NS J437. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Fri 14 May 2021. The items in this shopping list reveal the careful planning and budgeting needed to

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series. The others fall by the wayside. But no longer! We are happy to announce the launch of Genizah Fragments, the Blog of the Genizah Research Unit. ... This will be our main means of posting Genizah news, keeping you in touch with our manuscript

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Search site. Cambridge University Library. Aron Dotan z''l. Aron Dotan z''l. T-S K9.14 (recto): leaf from a masoretic work on accents. Author:. Kim Phillips. Mon 30 May 2022. Aron Dotan (b. 12th January 1928, Stuttgart)—one of the giants of 20th

Join me in blowing out the birthday candle on our birthday cake, as we look forward to another year of sharing research and announcing new discoveries. ... If you would like to write for the blog or tell us about an aspect of your research, write to us

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As the Genizah Research Unit celebrates its semi-centenary this year, is there scope for another series, featuring some of the tiniest and most fragmentary pieces?

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Hear, O Israel: The Magic of the Shema. Hear, O Israel: The Magic of the Shema. Pages from the exhibition's accompanying book. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Wed 17 Nov 2021. The Israel Museum’s new

The APCG project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement no.

Search site. Cambridge University Library. BIAJS Book Award for Nick Posegay. BIAJS Book Award for Nick Posegay. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Thu 14 Jul 2022. Congratulations to the Genizah Unit’s Nick Posegay, the 2022 winner of the British

Search site. Cambridge University Library. An Excommunication on Yom Kippur. An Excommunication on Yom Kippur. T-S 10J7.10 f. 2v: court deposition about al-Wuhsha's affair with Hassun. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Wed 15 Sep 2021. At sundown today

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Exhibition: Coins of the Cairo Geniza. Exhibition: Coins of the Cairo Geniza. T-S AS 146.5 (recto): a quarter dinar payment for the foster sons of al-Afḍāl. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Thu 16 Feb

Search site. Cambridge University Library. A troublesome affair in Kiev? A troublesome affair in Kiev? Detail of T-S 12.122 with multispectral imaging. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Wed 23 Feb 2022. As the eyes of the world turn to Ukraine,

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Targum on Toast. Targum on Toast. T-S K22.16 P1. Author:. Marc Michaels. Fri 7 Jun 2024. My colleague, Estara Arrant posted an image on social media of one of the nine fragments that constitutes T-S K22.16,

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Schechter Day 2022: A cutting accusation. Schechter Day 2022: A cutting accusation. T-S 8.91 (recto). Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Fri 13 May 2022. It's 13th May and Schechter Day: the anniversary of the

This book is the newest entry in the Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures series, and it is authored by the Genizah Research Unit's very own Nick Posegay.

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Article: Sticking to the Script, by Nick Posegay. Article: Sticking to the Script, by Nick Posegay. Detail of T-S Ar.5.58. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Thu 10 Jun 2021. Nick Posegay's article 'Sticking

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Pirates of the Genizaaaar! Pirates of the Genizaaaar! T-S 13J20.25 (recto): negotiations with Bedouin pirates. Author:. Ben Outhwaite. Sun 19 Sep 2021. When you took to the high seas in the Middle Ages it

Search site. Cambridge University Library. ‘Found in one of the Genizas of old Egypt’. ‘Found in one of the Genizas of old Egypt’. Detail from CUL Or. 1080.13.vi. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Wed 8 Jun 2022. The first Genizah fragments

Author:. Ben Outhwaite. Fri 27 Oct 2023. Today we are announcing a new piece of Genizah research and a new book in the field of book history from our friends over

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: Hebrew block print. Throwback Thursday: Hebrew block print. Or.1080 J50: a Mamluk block print. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Thu 28 Oct 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken

psychology, history, literature, music, contemporary issues, social politics and the news. ... Both Genizah talks were recorded and can be found on the 'Audio and video' section of the Genizah Research Unit's webpages (along with other audio/video

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Call the (medieval) Cheesemonger. Call the (medieval) Cheesemonger. T-S 8.38: Letter to their father from two wannabe cheesemongers in Baalbek. Author:. Ben Outhwaite. Fri 4 Jun 2021. On this National

Search site. Cambridge University Library. The future of Egypt’s past: the Mosseri Collection. The future of Egypt’s past: the Mosseri Collection. Jacques Mosseri. Author:. Ben Outhwaite. Fri 7 May 2021. The Jacques (or Jack) Mosseri Collection

Dr Paul Fenton, Research Assistant at the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, at present mainly engaged on the Unit’s bibliographical project, recently discovered among the Cambridge Genizah fragments a hitherto

The news got out amongst the academic community, and before Schechter could publish his discovery, Adolf Neubauer and Arthur Cowley announced their discovery of leaves of Ben Sira in the

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Cairo Genizah offers solution for chained wives. Cairo Genizah offers solution for chained wives. T-S 8J5.23 (verso): Conditional bill of divorce, dated 1169 CE, presented by Moses to his wife Sitt al-Fakhr,

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: the Genizah Research Unit in 2010. ... Throwback Thursday: the Genizah Research Unit in 2010. As we were in 2010.

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Book: Languages Are Good For Us, by Sophie Hardach. Book: Languages Are Good For Us, by Sophie Hardach. Languages Are Good For Us (Head of Zeus, 2021). Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Thu 6 May 2021.

In the course of editing a corpus of mediaeval Arabic legal and chancery documents preserved in the Cambridge Genizah Collection, Dr Geoffrey Khan, Research Assistant in the Genizah Unit, has discovered ... 453. What’s happened since? Geoffrey Khan is

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: Chancery deeds. Throwback Thursday: Chancery deeds. Detail from T-S K2.96 (verso): a twelfth-century chancery document which contains lines of a petition addressed to Saladin concerning

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Q&A Wednesday: A late date with Nick Posegay. Q&A Wednesday: A late date with Nick Posegay. T-S NS 270.183: A German price list for Arabic and Persian books, printed in 1929. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: A Samaritan discovery. Throwback Thursday: A Samaritan discovery. T-S NS 188.20 (verso): a Samaritan legend in Judaeo-Arabic discovered by Dr Friedrich Niessen, of the T-S Unit. Author:.

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: The conservation of a Genizah fragment. Throwback Thursday: The conservation of a Genizah fragment. Left: Mosseri IXa.1.28, before conservation. Right: After conservation, the Masoretic

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: Karaite ketubbot. Throwback Thursday: Karaite ketubbot. T-S 13J37.11 (recto): one of the rare Egyptian Karaite marriage contracts discussed in this article. Author:. Melonie

Khan while he was a Research Associate in the GRU:.

Credit for the discovery of these new Syriac fragments goes to Professors Israel Yeivin and Ezra Fleischer and to the Director of the Genizah Research Unit, who came across them in ... Some years later, Professor Simon Hopkins, then Research Assistant in

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Exhibition: Tastes of Heaven - Tales of the Arab Kitchen. Exhibition: Tastes of Heaven - Tales of the Arab Kitchen. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Fri 27 Oct 2023. Food represents culture without