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14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Ramla. . ‘We have seen the mountains shaking’: Fatimid humanitarian relief and the earthquake of 1033.. By Ben Outhwaite on Tue 7 Feb 2023. In December 1033 CE – late afternoon on

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

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Moshe Gil. . Throwback Thursday: Study of Babylonian Jewry.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 17 Jun 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 21 of the printed edition of

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Radio: Introducing the Genizah on Radio Maria. Radio: Introducing the Genizah on Radio Maria. Ben Outhwaite's interview on Radio Maria. Author:. Sarah Sykes. Fri 27 Oct 2023. In recent weeks Genizah

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Q&A Wednesday: The value of small things, with Oded Zinger. Q&A Wednesday: The value of small things, with Oded Zinger. Mosseri VII.207.1: a short note by the court clerk to the judge. Author:. Melonie

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Hayyuj. . Q&A Wednesday: José Martínez Delgado and the letters of al-Andalus.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and José Martínez Delgado on Wed 7 Jul 2021. Pepe, what are you working on at

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. commentary. . Book: An Anonymous Karaite Commentary on Hosea from the Cairo Genizah, by Friedrich Niessen.. By Joseph Habib on Fri 17 Sep 2021. An Anonymous Karaite Commentary on Hosea

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Romance. . Q&A Wednesday: Maimonides, hiding in plain sight, with José Martínez Delgado.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and José Martínez Delgado on Wed 12 Oct 2022. Pepe, what are you

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. E.J. Worman. . The “Worman Archive” in the Genizah Research Unit and the Problem of Tenuous Part-Time Contracts and/or Sudden Death for Archival Research.. By Nick Posegay on Thu 13

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Geoffrey Khan. . The “Worman Archive” in the Genizah Research Unit and the Problem of Tenuous Part-Time Contracts and/or Sudden Death for Archival Research.. By Nick Posegay on Thu 13

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: Deadly curse with a five star review. Throwback Thursday: Deadly curse with a five star review. T-S AS 162.51: a deadly curse template, in which the name of one's enemy can be inserted.

14 May 2024: Alan, which fragment are you looking at today? My job description at the Princeton Geniza Project is to look at uncatalogued or minimally catalogued documentary fragments, and while looking for these

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Q&A Wednesday: Zina Cohen on the inks of Fustat. Q&A Wednesday: Zina Cohen on the inks of Fustat. T-S 16.75 (recto): part of a ketubba written by Yefet b. David. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Zina

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. responsa. . Q&A Wednesday: Remote working turns up Maimonides’ ruling board, with Ben Outhwaite.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Ben Outhwaite on Wed 13 Oct 2021. Ben, what have you been

Bibliography. Cohen, Mark R. (2006) The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages: An Anthology of Documents from the Cairo Geniza.

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Augusta de Wit and the Genizah hoard. Augusta de Wit and the Genizah hoard. Ship in the Suez Canal; contemporary photograph by the Lewis-Gibson sisters from the Westminster College collection. Author:.

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Search. . Geṭ groundwork from the Cairo Genizah: practising writing a Jewish divorce document.. By Marc Michaels on Tue 30 Apr 2024. As a Sofer STa”M (scribe) one of the tasks I

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. scribe. . Geṭ groundwork from the Cairo Genizah: practising writing a Jewish divorce document.. By Marc Michaels on Tue 30 Apr 2024. As a Sofer STa”M (scribe) one of the tasks I

Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Thu 16 Feb 2023. A new online exhibition ‘Coins of the Cairo Geniza’, curated by Matthew Dudley and Alan Elbaum of the Princeton Geniza Lab, brings together ... The database (currently 104 entries) will continue to be

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Babylonian Talmud. . Q&A Wednesday: Talmudic therapy with a Mesopotamian pedigree? The Gittin Book of Remedies with Jason Sion Mokhtarian.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Jason Sion

14 May 2024: Geniza I: The Scandals..

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Q&A Wednesday: Gelatinisation of early parchment fragments in the T-S New Series, with Deborah Farndell. Q&A Wednesday: Gelatinisation of early parchment fragments in the T-S New Series, with Deborah

Search site. Cambridge University Library. International Women’s Day 2022: Stories of Women and War. International Women’s Day 2022: Stories of Women and War. L-G Misc. 35 (recto): letter from a woman refugee in Tripoli, ca, 1070s. Author:.

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: Variations in the Haggadah text. Throwback Thursday: Variations in the Haggadah text. T-S H2.152: Passover Haggadah with a Fifth Question. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Thu 14 Apr

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Arthur Cowley. . Schechter Day 2021: More than just Ben Sira.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 13 May 2021. 125 years ago today, Solomon Schechter sat down to write to Agnes Lewis. His

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Article: Searching for the Last Genizah Fragment in Late Ottoman Cairo. Article: Searching for the Last Genizah Fragment in Late Ottoman Cairo. T-S AS 198.194, a decorative wall hanging depicting famous

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Book: Thesaurus of Quntrese Ha-Masora: Hidden Language Treasures of Old, by Aron Dotan. Book: Thesaurus of Quntrese Ha-Masora: Hidden Language Treasures of Old, by Aron Dotan. Thesaurus of Quntrese Ha-Masora

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: Arabic manuscripts in the Genizah. Throwback Thursday: Arabic manuscripts in the Genizah. Detail from T-S K2.96 (verso): a petition to Saladin reused for a work on the Hebrew calendar.

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. tale. . Q&A Wednesday: Talking skulls with Magdalen Connolly.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Magdalen Connolly on Wed 19 May 2021. Magdalen - which manuscript are you working on today?

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Persian. . The “Worman Archive” in the Genizah Research Unit and the Problem of Tenuous Part-Time Contracts and/or Sudden Death for Archival Research.. By Nick Posegay on Thu 13 Oct

Search site. Cambridge University Library. 3rd August: Schechter's announcement in the Times. 3rd August: Schechter's announcement in the Times. Schechter's announcement in the Times on 3rd August 1897. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Tue 3 Aug

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

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Q&A Wednesday: Maimonides, hiding in plain sight, with José Martínez Delgado. Q&A Wednesday: Maimonides, hiding in plain sight, with José Martínez Delgado. T-S NS 163.57: A Judaeo-Romance/Judaeo-Arabic

Several of the documents were preserved in the Cairo Geniza, most written in Judeo-Arabic, some in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo-Greek.

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Ecclesiasticus. . Schechter Day 2021: More than just Ben Sira.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 13 May 2021. 125 years ago today, Solomon Schechter sat down to write to Agnes Lewis. His

14 May 2024: Exhibition: Geniza in the Gulf.. ... Alan, which fragment are you looking at today? My job description at the Princeton Geniza Project is to look at uncatalogued or minimally catalogued documentary fragments, and while looking for these

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. mamluk. . Throwback Thursday: Hebrew block print.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 28 Oct 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issues 5 and 6 of the printed edition of

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Goitein. . Q&A Wednesday: Flax, tax and trade hacks, with Lorenzo Bondioli.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Lorenzo Bondioli on Wed 3 Nov 2021. Lorenzo, what are you working on at the

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. travel. . Pirates of the Genizaaaar!. By Ben Outhwaite on Sun 19 Sep 2021. When you took to the high seas in the Middle Ages it was a calculated risk, but quite a considerable one. You

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. food. . Exhibition: Tastes of Heaven - Tales of the Arab Kitchen.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Sun 29 Oct 2023. Food represents culture without boundaries with flavors, changing fashions,

Geniza III: Pre-Nups, Politics & Palestine.. ... Geniza IV: Poetry, Government and the European Saga..

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. liturgy. . Throwback Thursday: Variations in the Haggadah text.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 14 Apr 2022. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 55 of the printed

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. codex. . Throwback Thursday: The Scribe who wrote the Bible.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 23 Jun 2022. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 75 of the printed edition

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Chancery. . Throwback Thursday: Chancery deeds.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 25 Nov 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 56 of the printed edition of Genizah

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

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: Unit’s major discovery. Throwback Thursday: Unit’s major discovery. T-S Ar.43.208 P3 (recto): a leaf from 'Obadyah Maimuni's "Treatise of the Pool" (al-Maqāla al-Ḥawḍiyya).

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. Lionising Luria. Lionising Luria. Mosseri III.232: A autograph letter by Isaac Luria. Author:. Ben Outhwaite. Sun 31 Mar 2024. The Genizah has preserved only a few glimpses of the life of the influential

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Q&A Wednesday: a Genizah Street View with Moshe Yagur. Q&A Wednesday: a Genizah Street View with Moshe Yagur. T-S Ar.53.61 (recto). Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Moshe Yagur. Wed 21 Jul 2021. Hi Moshe,

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. mystical. . Throwback Thursday: Magic Moments.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 16 Sep 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issues 8 and 9 of the printed edition of