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17 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Fustat. . Q&A Wednesday: a Genizah Street View with Moshe Yagur.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Moshe Yagur on Wed 21 Jul 2021. Hi Moshe, what are you working on at the moment? In my new

17 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. dairy. . Call the (medieval) Cheesemonger.. By Ben Outhwaite on Fri 4 Jun 2021. On this National Cheese Day, I thought I would take a look at what traces of cheese we can find among the

17 May 2024: J. Olszowy-Schlanger, Karaite marriage documents from the Cairo Geniza: legal tradition and community life in mediaeval Egypt and Palestine (Leiden, 1998).

17 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

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Book: Diversity and Rabbinization, edited by Gavin McDowell, Ron Naiweld and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra. Book: Diversity and Rabbinization, edited by Gavin McDowell, Ron Naiweld and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra.

17 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

17 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Ashkenaz. . Throwback Thursday: How ‘M’ solved calendar mystery.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 9 Jun 2022. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 46 of the printed

17 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. FOTM. . 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

Goitein, ‘rated in the miracle-ridden world of the Geniza far higher than in Ashkenazi Judaism of yesteryear’).

17 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

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

7 Aug 2018: Hoffman & P. Cole, Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, 2011; and S. ... See M. A. Friedman, Jewish marriage in Palestine: A Cairo Geniza study, 1980, vol.

Geniza (Hebrew).

17 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

17 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

17 May 2024: Sanders; London, 1967–1993). S. D. Goitein & M. A. Friedman, India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza (‘India Book’) (Leiden, 2008).

17 May 2024: Has tags:By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 16 Feb 2023. A new online exhibition ‘Coins of the Cairo Geniza’, curated by Matthew Dudley and Alan Elbaum of the Princeton Geniza

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Q&A Wednesday: The Bible under microscope, with Nehemia Gordon. Q&A Wednesday: The Bible under microscope, with Nehemia Gordon. Detail of T-S NS 3.25, a scroll reused for writing practice. Author:. Melonie

17 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

17 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

17 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. conservation. . 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”,

17 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Littman. . Introducing the Genizah Fragments Blog.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Wed 5 May 2021. The researchers of the GRU, toiling away with their noses to the manuscript coalface, are

17 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. medical. . 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 Mokhtarian on Wed

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

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Q&A Wednesday: How to store a Genizah fragment, with Marina Pellisari. Q&A Wednesday: How to store a Genizah fragment, with Marina Pellisari. Detail of the spine and end bands. Author:. Melonie

17 May 2024: All of the fragments I’ve found thus far may be accessed at this link on the Princeton Geniza Project. ... Moshe Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza (Leiden,, 1976), 411, doc.

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.

17 May 2024: 16–24. M.A. Friedman, India Book IVA: Halfon and Judah ha-Levi – the lives of a merchant scholar and a poet laureate according to the Cairo Geniza documents (Hebrew; Jerusalem,

17 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. captives. . 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. Q&A Wednesday: A scholarly alchemist, with Gabriele Ferrario. Q&A Wednesday: A scholarly alchemist, with Gabriele Ferrario. T-S Ar. 44.4 and T-S NS 31.6: Two halves of one page. Author:. Melonie

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Introducing the Genizah Fragments Blog. Introducing the Genizah Fragments Blog. Detail from T-S NS 305.83. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Wed 5 May 2021. The researchers of the GRU, toiling away with their

17 May 2024: Very few of the thousand or so Jewish India travelers mentioned in the Geniza went as far as the Coromandel coast, but beyond it, next to none. ... It was, then “natural that no letters from those distant parts have found their way into the Geniza.”.

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Q&A Wednesday: Tales of Cambridge collectors, with Catherine Ansorge. Q&A Wednesday: Tales of Cambridge collectors, with Catherine Ansorge. Margaret Gibson on a camel in 1893. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee

17 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. kashrut. . Call the (medieval) Cheesemonger.. By Ben Outhwaite on Fri 4 Jun 2021. On this National Cheese Day, I thought I would take a look at what traces of cheese we can find among

17 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

17 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Kiev. . Web: Ben Outhwaite on the Kyiv Letter and more in Kedem video series.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Tue 21 Mar 2023. The Kedem YouTube channel has recently published three video

17 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

Can you tell us about it? Yes! I'm describing some documents at the moment for the Princeton Geniza Project, and while going through some of the manuscripts of the Jewish ... Shulamit explained that the poem was of the Seliha or Mustajib type, and that

17 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. get refusal. . Cairo Genizah offers solution for chained wives.. By Amir Ashur on Wed 9 Jun 2021. A new article in the Guardian (‘Unchain your wife’: the Orthodox women shining a

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,

17 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Fatimid. . ‘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. 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. More about less: A New Shorthand Targum Manuscript. More about less: A New Shorthand Targum Manuscript. T-S AS 67.26 (verso): abbreviated Targum fragment. Author:. Kim Phillips. Thu 8 Feb 2024. Among the

17 May 2024: The vast majority of Geniza manuscripts are fragmentary, and there are other commandments in the same Decalogue series that are not completely visible in the extant remains. ... Or, perhaps we have here discovered among thousands of biblical fragments in

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

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

17 May 2024: A. Friedman, India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza (‘India Book’), Leiden and Boston (Brill and Ben Zvi Institute) 2008 [2007]. –, ... Joseph Lebdī—Prominent India Trader, Cairo Geniza Documents (Hebrew), Jerusalem

17 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?

17 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

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Q&A Wednesday: Toledot Yeshu – insult or entertainment? With Miriam Goldstein. Q&A Wednesday: Toledot Yeshu – insult or entertainment? With Miriam Goldstein. T-S NS 298.58 (recto): an early