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1 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

1 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

1 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

1 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. bulla. . The future of Egypt’s past: the Mosseri Collection.. By Ben Outhwaite on Fri 7 May 2021. The Jacques (or Jack) Mosseri Collection arrived in Cambridge in 2006. After Schechter

1 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Greek. . Q&A Wednesday: Julia Krivoruchko on the mannerisms of Greek glosses.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Julia Krivoruchko on Wed 8 Sep 2021. Julia, what are you working on today?

1 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. ink. . 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

1 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

1 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

1 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

1 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. debt. . Q&A Wednesday: Ottoman Karaites and conflict, with Dotan Arad.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Dotan Arad on Wed 4 Aug 2021. Dotan, what are you working on at the moment? I’m

1 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,

1 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

1 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Qurʾan. . 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

1 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

1 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

1 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Egypt. . Q&A Wednesday: Tales of Cambridge collectors, with Catherine Ansorge.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Catherine Ansorge on Wed 19 Oct 2022. Catherine, what are you working on at

1 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

1 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. kosher. . 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

1 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

1 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?

1 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. dowry. . Q&A Wednesday: The value of small things, with Oded Zinger.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Oded Zinger on Wed 14 Jul 2021. Oded, what are you working on at the moment? I’m

1 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Origen. . 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

1 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Coptic. . 'Coptic' numerals and Genizah studies.. By Magdalen M. Connolly on Wed 2 Jun 2021. It has long been customary in both Genizah studies and Arabic codicology to describe the

1 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

1 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. cheese. . 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

1 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

1 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

1 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Mishnah. . Q&A Wednesday: Julia Krivoruchko on the mannerisms of Greek glosses.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Julia Krivoruchko on Wed 8 Sep 2021. Julia, what are you working on today?

1 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Hanukka. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Tue 30 Nov 2021. Happy Hanukka to all readers of Genizah Fragments! Yesterday evening (in what was possibly a first for the University Library?) a

1 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

1 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

1 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

1 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

1 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. fishing. . Throwback Thursday: Protecting fishing rights.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 13 May 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 13 of the printed edition of

1 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

1 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

1 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. paper. . 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

1 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

1 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

1 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

1 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

1 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

1 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. mastara. . 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

1 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

1 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

1 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

1 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

1 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. colophon. . Book and Article: Literary Snippets.. By Ben Outhwaite on Fri 27 Oct 2023. Today we are announcing a new piece of Genizah research and a new book in the field of book history

1 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. polemic. . 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”, “stained”,

1 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Hexapla. . 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