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13 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

13 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Elkan Nathan Adler. . 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

13 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

13 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Muslim-Jewish relations. . 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

13 May 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Mordechai Akiva Friedman. . 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

13 May 2024: vast treasure trove of manuscripts discovered in the “geniza,” or sacred storeroom, of an ancient synagogue in Old Cairo. ... The Geniza documents are a window into a vanished civilization, illuminating over a thousand years of Jewish, Christian,

13 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. Pirates of the Genizaaaar! Pirates of the Genizaaaar! T-S 13J20.25 (recto): negotiations with Bedouin pirates. Author:. Ben Outhwaite. Sun 19 Sep 2021. When you took to the high seas in the Middle Ages it

13 May 2024: From another Geniza letter we know what kind of a boat it was. ... PS: Please keep an eye out for anything Maldives-related in the Geniza manuscripts and inform me.

13 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.

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

13 May 2024: s discussion and translation, this fascinating letter has been discussed and analyzed in the literature on women in the Geniza. ... und Dokumenten aus der Kairoer Geniza,” in Dialog der Disziplinen: Jüdische Studien und Literaturwissenschaft, ed.

13 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

13 May 2024: Zinger, Oded. “Women, Gender and Law: Marital Disputes According to Documents from the Cairo Geniza.” PhD diss. ... Alexander Scheiber, Geniza Studies, New York: G. Olms, 1981, 342–47. Scheiber gives in to the temptation to assume that Dr.

13 May 2024: I am writing to say thank you once again for such a fascinating and inspirational talk and introduction to the Geniza collection. ... It was, all in all, a remarkable and memorable afternoon. Having heard of the Cairo Geniza from time to time and its

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

13 May 2024: He was however right to consider these Geniza fragments as exceptionally ancient, going back to the heydays of the Gaonic yeshivot in Iraq. ... 13. No less than thirty-six folios, spanning over thirty-one shelfmarks, have been discovered in the Geniza

13 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).

Mark R. Cohen, The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages: An Anthology of Documents from the Cairo Geniza, Princeton University Press, 2005.

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

13 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.

13 May 2024: See M. A. Friedman, “On the Contribution of the Geniza to Maimonidean Research” (Hebrew), in Maimonides and the Cairo Geniza (M. ... Friedman, India Book I: Joseph Lebdī—Prominent India Trader, Cairo Geniza Documents (Hebrew), p.

13 May 2024: 523; fols 2–3 are to be published by Friedman as The Cairo Geniza’s contribution for the study of Maimonides [forthcoming]). ... Bibliography. S. D. Goitein & M. A. Friedman, India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza (‘India

13 May 2024: Even the smallest scrap can contain unexpected information about his work and the Geniza society. ... From the fragment, we cannot know what the father-in-law wanted to prevent, but the Geniza contains documents that show that a young bride’s parents

13 May 2024: While preparing a lecture on Hebrew micrography, I looked for an image of a Geniza ketubbah with micrography, and found pictures of both the Oxford and Cambridge ketubbot… Arranging them on ... research. See, for example, her keynote lecture “Finding

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

13 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

13 May 2024: 3] See S.D. Goitein and M.A. Friedman, India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza, Leiden 2008, documents III17 (pp. ... 4] More information on such conversions and their description can be found in Moshe Yagur, ‘Religious

13 May 2024: A. Hoffman and P. Cole, Sacred Trash: the Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza (Nextbook/Schocken, 2011), is described by Harold Bloom as ‘a small masterpiece’ and will enlighten

13 May 2024: T-S AS 149.178 recto. While preparing a Geniza Responsa Catalogue sponsored by the Friedberg Genizah Project (and directed by Prof. ... A halakhic work found in the Geniza similarly ruled that the Talmudic requirement to see a woman before betrothing her

13 May 2024: Broido). Gil, M. 2004. ‘Institutions and events of the eleventh century mirrored in Geniza letters (part II)’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 67, 168–184. ... Goitein, S. D. 1967–1993. A Mediterranean Society: the Jewish

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Aron Dotan z''l. Aron Dotan z''l. T-S K9.14 (recto): leaf from a masoretic work on accents. Author:. Kim Phillips. Mon 30 May 2022. Aron Dotan (b. 12th January 1928, Stuttgart)—one of the giants of 20th

13 May 2024: 89–93. —, “Un rotulus du midrash Pirqa de-Rabbenu ha-Qadosh de la Geniza du Caire”, Annuaire de l’École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Section des sciences historiques et philologiques ... 26–40. —, “Cheap Books in Medieval Egypt:

13 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

13 May 2024: The decipherment, translation and comments are by Friedman and Ashur. [2] See Goitein (1967: 356): ‘More serious is the problem that in some cases a date in a Geniza document, mentioned ... Goitein, S. D., A Mediterranean Society – The Jewish

13 May 2024: BBC Radio 3, first broadcast May 2013. PhD thesis (2000): A descriptive grammar of the medieval Hebrew of the Cairo Geniza letters (doctoral thesis).

13 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

13 May 2024: Weiss, G. 1970. Legal documents written by the court clerk Halfon ben Manasse (dated 1100-1138): A study in the diplomatics of the Cairo Geniza, Documents 46 and 47.

Search site. Cambridge University Library. Hear, O Israel: The Magic of the Shema. Hear, O Israel: The Magic of the Shema. Pages from the exhibition's accompanying book. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Wed 17 Nov 2021. The Israel Museum’s new

Search site. Cambridge University Library. An Excommunication on Yom Kippur. An Excommunication on Yom Kippur. T-S 10J7.10 f. 2v: court deposition about al-Wuhsha's affair with Hassun. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Wed 15 Sep 2021. At sundown today

13 May 2024: Hoffman, Adina, and Peter Cole. Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza. ... left it in their hotel room by mistake; Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole, Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza (New York: Nextbook, Schocken,

13 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,

Geniza III: Pre-Nups, Politics & Palestine.. ... Geniza IV: Poetry, Government and the European Saga..

13 May 2024: A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza (6 vols. ... D. & Friedman, M. A. (2008). India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza (‘India Book’).

13 May 2024: Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2013. Goitein, Shelomo Dov. ‘The Biography of Rabbi Judah Ha-Levi in the Light of the Cairo Geniza Documents.’ Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research

Search site. Cambridge University Library. A year of Genizah Fragments. A year of Genizah Fragments. Detail from T-S K6.15. Yes, probably a hanukkiah rather than a birthday cake, but celebratory nonetheless. Author:. Melonie Schmierer-Lee. Thu 5 May

13 May 2024: PhD dissertation University of Pennsylvania 1970. Goitein, S.D.: A Mediterranean society; the Jewish communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza; economic foundations.

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

Geniza (Hebrew).

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