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14 May 2024: N. Adler Collection, Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Goitein, S. D., A Mediterranean society; the Jewish communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza. ... Jerusalem 2010. Goitein, S. D. and Friedman, M.A., India

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. By Marc Michaels on Tue 30 Apr 2024. As a Sofer STa”M (scribe) one of the tasks I undertake is to write giṭṭin – Jewish divorce documents – sadly, usually one or two a month for

14 May 2024: The tour included New York University Abu Dhabi, with the 'Geniza in the Gulf' exhibition on public display for a month. ... Dr Mohamed Ahmed, from Trinity College Dublin, and Dr Ben Outhwaite gave the opening lecture for the ‘Geniza in the Gulf’

14 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

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

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

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?

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. theatre. . Q&A Wednesday: Hebrew maqama poetry meets pop culture, with Michael Rand.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Michael Rand on Wed 15 Sep 2021. Michael, what are you working on at the

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

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. Syriac. . Book: Points of Contact, by Nick Posegay.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Fri 7 Jan 2022. Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and

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

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Stefan Reif. . Schechter Day 2022: A cutting accusation.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Fri 13 May 2022. It's 13th May and Schechter Day: the anniversary of the identification of this

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. staff. . Throwback Thursday: the Genizah Research Unit in 2010.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 24 Jun 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is a photo of the Genizah Unit's staff as it

14 May 2024: Found in one of the Genizas of old Egypt’..

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Solomon of Sijilmassa. . Q&A Wednesday: Ben Outhwaite on managing the GRU in a time of Covid.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Ben Outhwaite on Wed 30 Jun 2021. So, Ben what are you working

14 May 2024: Interestingly, he first mentions working on 'the Genizas' (plural), before then describing 'the. ... Noam, what are you working on at the moment? I’m working with Marina Rustow at the Princeton Geniza Project, helping to train a computer algorithm to

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. slave. . Q&A Wednesday: Slavery, sex, and status, with Craig Perry.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Craig Perry on Wed 11 Aug 2021. Hi Craig – what are you working on at the moment? Next

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

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. sigla. . Throwback Thursday: Section markings in Bible scrolls.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 1 Jul 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 32 of the printed edition

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Shavuot. . A shopping list for Shavuot.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Fri 14 May 2021. The items in this shopping list reveal the careful planning and budgeting needed to celebrate the

14 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

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

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. sea. . 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 were

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. scroll. . Q&A Wednesday: The Bible under microscope, with Nehemia Gordon.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Nehemia Gordon on Wed 13 Apr 2022. Nehemia, what are you working on today? I’m a

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

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. science. . Q&A Wednesday: A scholarly alchemist, with Gabriele Ferrario.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Gabriele Ferrario on Wed 6 Jul 2022. Gabriele, what are you working on at the

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

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Samuel ben Hofni. . 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

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Samaritan. . Throwback Thursday: A Samaritan discovery.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 9 Sep 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 40 of the printed edition of

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Safed. By Ben Outhwaite on Sun 31 Mar 2024. The Genizah has preserved only a few glimpses of the life of the influential qabbalist Isaac Luria Ashkenazi, the Ari – הארי ז׳׳ל,

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Saadiah Gaon. . One letter at a time: reconstructing Saadya's Refutation of Ibn Sāqawayh.. By Nadia Vidro on Thu 13 Jul 2023. Most Genizah fragments are damaged – “torn”,

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Russian National Library. . Bad calculations: another missing link in the history of the rabbinic calendar.. By Sacha Stern on Sat 2 Mar 2024. The Jewish calendar that is in almost

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. 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

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. resource. . Online resource: Calendar Fragments as a Tool for Palaeography.. By Ben Outhwaite on Fri 10 Jun 2022. A timeline of medieval calendar booklets from the Taylor-Schechter

14 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. refugees. . International Women’s Day 2022: Stories of Women and War.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Tue 8 Mar 2022. In the Middle Ages, just like today, women face particular challenges