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Broido). Gil, M. 2004. ‘Institutions and events of the eleventh century mirrored in Geniza letters (part II)’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 67, 168–184. ... Goitein, S. D. 1967–1993. A Mediterranean Society: the Jewish

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.

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Yom Kippur. . An Excommunication on Yom Kippur.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Wed 15 Sep 2021. At sundown today, Yom Kippur – the Jewish Day of Atonement – begins. It’s a day for

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Yiddish. . Throwback Thursday: Rachel’s Missing Letters?. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 21 Oct 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 58 of the printed edition of

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. yeshiva. . 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

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Yemen. . Q&A Wednesday: Deconstructing Genizah mythology, with Rebecca Jefferson.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Rebecca Jefferson on Wed 22 Dec 2021. Rebecca, you have a new book coming

14 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

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Women. . A Millennium of Jewish Women’s Voices.. By Sarah Bunin Benor and Abby Graham on Wed 2 Nov 2022. Historically, most well-known documents in Jewish languages have been penned by

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. witches. . Q&A Wednesday: Witches vs Theologians with Zvi Stampfer.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Zvi Stampfer on Wed 23 Jun 2021. Hi Zvi, which manuscript are you working on today? I’m

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. widow. . A Millennium of Jewish Women’s Voices.. By Sarah Bunin Benor and Abby Graham on Wed 2 Nov 2022. Historically, most well-known documents in Jewish languages have been penned by

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

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Web: Ben Outhwaite on the Kyiv Letter and more in Kedem video series. Web: Ben Outhwaite on the Kyiv Letter and more in Kedem video series. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Tue 21 Mar 2023. The Kedem YouTube

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. vocalisation. . More about less: A New Shorthand Targum Manuscript.. By Kim Phillips on Thu 8 Feb 2024. Among the most charming of the dozens of thousands of Bible fragments found in the

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. vocabulary. . 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. trousseau. . Throwback Thursday: Trousseau list tells only half a story.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 20 May 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 41 of 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. 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?

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Toledot Yeshu. . 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

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: What does the future hold? Throwback Thursday: What does the future hold? T-S Ar.44.15. This bifolium provides short descriptions of the sixteen geomantic figures bearing Berber names

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

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: Use of Hebrew in Genizah letters. Throwback Thursday: Use of Hebrew in Genizah letters. T-S 10J9.25 (recto): letter from Nathan b. Abraham, urging his supporters to be in Jerusalem for

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. Throwback Thursday: Uncovering the Karaites. Throwback Thursday: Uncovering the Karaites. T-S Ar. 52.242: A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible (Numbers 14:30-33) transcribed in Arabic characters. Author:.

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

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: Three Glimpses of ‘Those behind the Veil’ in the Mosseri Collection. Throwback Thursday: Three Glimpses of ‘Those behind the Veil’ in the Mosseri Collection. A son describes his

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: The Scribe who wrote the Bible. Throwback Thursday: The Scribe who wrote the Bible. Detail of a page from a Great Bible codex written by Samuel b. Jacob, showing his distinctive ::

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.

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: The Constantinople Polyglot of 1546. Throwback Thursday: The Constantinople Polyglot of 1546. T-S NS 295.212 (recto): A leaf of the polyglot Bible printed in Constantinople in 1546,

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: Targumic poems of the Pentateuch. Throwback Thursday: Targumic poems of the Pentateuch. T-S H10.78: The twelve months debate their relative importance. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee.

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: Study of Babylonian Jewry. Throwback Thursday: Study of Babylonian Jewry. T-S 12.829 (recto): part of an eleventh-century Judaeo-Arabic letter in the hand of Hai Gaon. Author:. Melonie

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: Section markings in Bible scrolls. Throwback Thursday: Section markings in Bible scrolls. T-S AS 56.179, one of the more than 350 Hebrew fragments of Jeremiah used in Dr Jack Lundbom's

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: Rachel’s Missing Letters? Throwback Thursday: Rachel’s Missing Letters? T-S AS 205.53: One of three newly discovered fragments of a letter written in an early form of Yiddish to

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: Protecting fishing rights. Throwback Thursday: Protecting fishing rights. T-S Ar.40.37. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Thu 13 May 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from

J. Augustin (Glückstadt, 1991). The manuscript T-S B13.12 has been widely known – since Kahle mentioned it in The Cairo Geniza in 1947 – as testimony to an unpublished targum to

Cairo Geniza (which is being completed by Renée Levine Melammed), and Maimonides’ Epistles and Personal Correspondence (which Zvi Stampfer is editing for publication).

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: Magic Moments. Throwback Thursday: Magic Moments. T-S K23.3 P2 (recto): Palimpsest of the magical work Sefer ha-Razim written over a ketubba. 10th-11th century. Author:. Melonie Schmierer

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: 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

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: Egyptian Help to the Holy Land. Throwback Thursday: Egyptian Help to the Holy Land. T-S AS 218.153 (recto): letter sent from Egypt to Safed, reporting the death of Safed's fundraising

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.

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Throwback Thursday: Curiosities of bygone days. Throwback Thursday: Curiosities of bygone days. Stefan Reif shows a crate of manuscripts to visitors (Israeli Ambassador, Yehuda Avner, and Eli Rosen,

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

Geniza (Hebrew).

241- 246, and James R. Russell, 'On an Armenian word list from the Cairo Geniza,' Iran and the Caucasus, Vol.

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.

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

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.

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. theology. . Q&A Wednesday: Witches vs Theologians with Zvi Stampfer.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Zvi Stampfer on Wed 23 Jun 2021. Hi Zvi, which manuscript are you working on today?