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15 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?

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. audio. . Radio: Introducing the Genizah on Radio Maria.. By Sarah Sykes on Sat 28 Oct 2023. In recent weeks Genizah researchers recorded two radio interviews about the collection and its

15 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

15 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

15 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,

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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?

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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?

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. magic. . Throwback Thursday: What does the future hold?. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 10 Feb 2022. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 68 of the printed edition of

15 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. agunah. . Throwback Thursday: Three Glimpses of ‘Those behind the Veil’ in the Mosseri Collection.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 9 Dec 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is

15 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Persian. . 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

15 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