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16 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. ketubba. . Throwback Thursday: Karaite ketubbot.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 30 Sep 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 31 of the printed edition of Genizah

16 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Bodleian. . 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

16 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Isaac Luria. 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

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Q&A Wednesday: Arabic poetic literature with Mohamed Ahmed. Q&A Wednesday: Arabic poetic literature with Mohamed Ahmed. T-S Ar.42.8 (recto). Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Mohamed Ahmed. Wed 9 Jun 2021.

16 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. numerals. . '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

16 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

16 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

16 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. list. . Throwback Thursday: Armenian and Romance vocabulary for the discerning traveller.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 3 Jun 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken

16 May 2024: Benjamin Franklin. Tax receipts might sound like an extraordinarily boring genre of Geniza document. ... Wahb had a pile of receipts that he eventually deposited in the Geniza.

16 May 2024: Geniza I: The Scandals..

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

16 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Agnes Lewis. . Augusta de Wit and the Genizah hoard.. By Catherine Ansorge on Mon 26 Feb 2024. The discovery of the Cairo Genizah manuscript fragments in the synagogue in Al-Fustat, Old

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

16 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

16 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Ottoman. . Article: Searching for the Last Genizah Fragment in Late Ottoman Cairo.. By Nick Posegay on Fri 27 May 2022. The Cairo Genizah is famous as a source for the study of medieval

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

16 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

16 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).

Exhibition: Coins of the Cairo Geniza. T-S AS 146.5 (recto): a quarter dinar payment for the foster sons of al-Afḍāl. ... Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Thu 16 Feb 2023. A new online exhibition ‘Coins of the Cairo Geniza’, curated by Matthew

16 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Abraham Maimonides. . 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

16 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit. Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit. The Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection is a window on the medieval world and has been colourfully described as ‘a refuge

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Lionising Luria. Lionising Luria. Mosseri III.232: A autograph letter by Isaac Luria. Author:. Ben Outhwaite. Sun 31 Mar 2024. The Genizah has preserved only a few glimpses of the life of the influential

16 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

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

16 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. betrothal. . 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 Genizah

16 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

16 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’

Geniza (Hebrew).

16 May 2024: 8. ܝܒ. 9. ܡܘܪܝܐ ܡܢܘ ܢܥ]ܡܪ ܒܡܫܟܢܟ ܘ[ܡܢ ܗܘ ܢܫܪܐ. The Peshitta of Psalm 20, divided according to the lines of the Geniza fragment for easier comparison (the break

16 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Gershom. . 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 Genizah

16 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. liturgy. . Throwback Thursday: Variations in the Haggadah text.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 14 Apr 2022. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 55 of the printed

Search site. Cambridge University Library. The future of Egypt’s past: the Mosseri Collection. The future of Egypt’s past: the Mosseri Collection. Jacques Mosseri. Author:. Ben Outhwaite. Fri 7 May 2021. The Jacques (or Jack) Mosseri Collection

16 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. al-Wuhsha. . 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

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Q&A Wednesday: A late date with Nick Posegay. Q&A Wednesday: A late date with Nick Posegay. T-S NS 270.183: A German price list for Arabic and Persian books, printed in 1929. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee

16 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?

16 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Ibn Yiju. . 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?

Search site. Cambridge University Library. A shopping list for Shavuot. A shopping list for Shavuot. T-S NS J437. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Fri 14 May 2021. The items in this shopping list reveal the careful planning and budgeting needed to

16 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Genizah Fragments. . 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

16 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

16 May 2024: Bibliography. Cohen, M. (2005). The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages: an Anthology of Documents from the Cairo Geniza. ... Gil, M. (1983). Palestine during the First Muslim Period (634–1099), part II: Cairo Geniza Documents (Hebrew).

16 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. 15th July: Jerusalem falls to the armies of the First Crusade. 15th July: Jerusalem falls to the armies of the First Crusade. Detail of T-S 20.113. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Thu 15 Jul 2021. It’s

16 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

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Q&A Wednesday: Estara Arrant and the informal Bibles of Fustat. Q&A Wednesday: Estara Arrant and the informal Bibles of Fustat. T-S K5.95: A Bible written in a relatively untrained hand, of Leviticus 1,

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Book: Bouncing Back – and Forward, by Stefan C. Reif. Book: Bouncing Back – and Forward, by Stefan C. Reif. Bouncing Back – and Forward: From Immigrant Household to Cambridge Fellowship (Vallentine

16 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

16 May 2024: These manuscripts do not come from the Cairo Geniza but seem to have originated in another Egyptian manuscript depository.

16 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Mosseri. . 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

16 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Avi Shivtiel. . Throwback Thursday: Armenian and Romance vocabulary for the discerning traveller.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 3 Jun 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken

16 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