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13 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Gershom. . Throwback Thursday: Cases of polygamy.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 8 Jul 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 12 of the printed edition of Genizah

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

13 May 2024: From Cairo to the Cloud: The World of the Cairo Geniza examines the history of a vast store of medieval manuscripts discovered in an Egyptian synagogue by intrepid twin Scottish sisters

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

13 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit. Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit. The Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection is a window on the medieval world and has been colourfully described as ‘a refuge

13 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Babylonian. . 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

13 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Hebron. . Throwback Thursday: Egyptian Help to the Holy Land.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 29 Jul 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 23 of the printed edition

13 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Jesus. . Q&A Wednesday: Toledot Yeshu – insult or entertainment? With Miriam Goldstein.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Miriam Goldstein on Wed 20 Oct 2021. Miriam, what are you working

13 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Japan. . Q&A Wednesday: Genizah Studies in Japan, with Hideharu Shimada and Amir Ashur.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee, Haru Shimada, and Amir Ashur on Wed 27 Oct 2021. Haru, what are you

13 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Yannai. . Palimpsests, recycled manuscripts, are the focus of ‘Ghost Words: Reading the Past’, Cambridge University Library’s current major exhibition.. By Ben Outhwaite on Wed 12

13 May 2024: Mark R. Cohen, The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages, An Anthology of Documents from the Cairo Geniza (Princeton 2005). ... 232–256. S. D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of

13 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. pirates. . 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

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: Fragments of alchemy in the Genizah. Throwback Thursday: Fragments of alchemy in the Genizah. T-S Misc. 8.51 (P1, verso): A collection of practical alchemical recipes, including a

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: Trousseau list tells only half a story. Throwback Thursday: Trousseau list tells only half a story. T-S NS J390 (trousseau list). Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Thu 20 May 2021. Our

13 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Shapira. . Throwback Thursday: Uncovering the Karaites.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 22 Jul 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 17 of the printed edition of

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: A surprise in Syriac script. Throwback Thursday: A surprise in Syriac script. T-S AS 213.20 (recto): a Christian hymnary for a Feast of Mary. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Thu 19 Aug

13 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. trade. . 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 moment?

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

13 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

What happened next? Fred's article, "A Judaeo-Arabic fragment of a Samaritan chronicle from the Cairo Geniza", appeared in the Journal of Semitic Studies in 2002.