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Research fellow at the University of Haifa. Former senior research fellow Ben Gurion University. A former student of Prof. M.A. Friedman from Tel-Aviv University, and worked with him on various projects, among them the ‘India Book’ and Judeo-Arabic dictionary. Research Associate at the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, in identification and description of Judaeo-Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew fragments, with a particular focus on the ‘documentary Genizah’
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May 2013 - October 2018
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This article presents several Genizah fragments containing passages of Saadya Gaon's translation of the Pentateuch in the handwriting of a copyist identified as Yedutun Ha-Levi ben Levi He-Ḥaver, who was active in the first half of the thirteenth century. These passages are transcribed in full in the article, together with a critical apparatus whic...
Edición, traducción y análisis de cuatro listas de un borrador autógrafo de Maimónides que le servirían posiblemente para desarrollar diferentes temas por escrito en un futuro o asistirle en su docencia, tal y como se desprende de la secuencia de los ítems de las listas, donde subyace un orden lógico. Algunas voces de estas listas están glosadas en...
The document published in this article is a letter of introduction written by a Karaite Andalusi Jew upon his arrival to Egypt, on his route to Jerusalem. The text, which was deposited in the Cairo Genizah, is currently held at Cambridge University Library in the Taylor-Schechter Collection (Genizah Research Unit). Although undated, the text has th...
The article presents a full transcription and discussion of eighteen early Genizah fragments of Saadya's Bible translation made of parchment (sixteen from the Pentateuch and two from the book of Daniel) and copied by the scribe Samuel b. Shechaniah b. Amram. Seventeen of them are long narrow pieces of parchment of uneven size, and some are two or m...
The articles in this volume focus on the legal, linguistic, historical and literary roles of Jewish women in the Islamic world of the Middle Ages. Drawing heavily on manuscript evidence from the Cairo Genizah, the authors examine the challenges involved in the identication and interpretation of women's letters from medieval Egypt, the registers of...
The article discusses JTS ENA NS 69.12, a Genizah fragment of Saadya Gaon’s translation of Numbers 27.18-22, 28.2-7, whose scribe can be identified as Mevōrākh b. Nāthān, a well-known scribe active in Fusṭāṭ in 1150–1180 CE. The article includes its transcription, a critical apparatus, and its philological and linguistic analysis. This Genizah frag...
In this essay I examine the content, form, and structure of different genres of prenuptial agreements found in the Cairo Geniza.
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/302192
The use of veils among contemporary Muslim women triggers a large range of emotions and concepts in the general public and among Muslim communities in different places.The general public perception of veiling shifts from manifestations of female oppression to concepts of liberation of women from the male gaze. Individuals, as well as state institut...
Maimonides' contemporaries began collecting his responsa during his lifetime. Most of his preserved responsa are found in such collections in manuscripts outside the Geniza. The Geniza fragments edited in this article belong to a class of their own. As far as we know, registers of Maimonidean responsa, or rather of queries addressed to Maimonides,...
The article presents a Jewish marriage deed, a ketubba, which was written in Sanaa in 1899 CE and later found among the Genizah manuscripts brought out of Egypt. It was written in Aramaic, Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic by a skilled scribe, and is, in fact, a replacement deed, written instead of one that had previously been lost by the couple. On the bac...
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/taylor-schechter-genizah-research-unit/fragment-month/fragment-month-19
この度、早稲田大学イスラーム地域研究機構エジプト班は、ゲニザ文書の専門家であるアミール・アーシュール氏を招き、ワークショップを行います。エジプト・カイロのベン・エズラ・シナゴーグで発見されたゲニザ文書（カイロ・ゲニザ）は、訴訟や契約に関わる文書から私信まで様々な種類の文書を含む希有なコレクションです。しかし、その史料的価値は認められつつも、イスラーム史研究においてはそれらの利用の余地は未だに多く残されているというのが現状です。本ワークショップでは、ゲニザ文書の背景（伝世状況や研究史）を踏まえながら、それをいかにイスラーム史研究に生かすことができるかについて議論していく予定です。ゲニザ文書に触れたことのない人も、またより一層専門的な知識を得たいという人も、本ワークショップを情報共有の場として生...
The article presents a Hebrew letter sent from ū ibla in Yemen to Fusṭāṭ, Egypt, around 1095 C.E. The letter was written by a local leader in Yemen and stresses the allegiance of the Jewish community to Mevora b. Saʿadya, who had recently been reappointed 'Head of the Jews' in the Fāṭimid Empire. Traditionally the Jews of Yemen, like those of Arabi...
symposium: The Burgeoning of the Jewish Community and its Historical Evolution in the Middle Ages as Described in Primary Sources-A Comparative Approach
In this paper we offer an introduction to some
marriage customs, which were probably of
Spanish origin, or were also used in Spain,
known through the documents of Cairo
Genizah. Due to both the scarcity of evidence
and the need for further investigation, this
paper should be considered as a seed for
preliminary research.
En este trabajo investigam...
A study of two documents from the Cairo Genizah, a vast repository of medieval Jewish writings recovered from a synagogue in Fusṭāṭ, Egypt, one hundred years ago, shows the importance of this archive for the history of medieval Yemen and, in particular, for the role that Yemen played in the Indian Ocean trade as both a commercial and administrative...
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Taylor-Schechter/fotm/march-2014/index.html
In the Cairo Genizah we find thousands of documents related to marriage and family life. These serve as unique and rich material for the research of the family life of the Jews of Egypt in the medieval period. It was common among the Genizah people to agree on certain conditions to apply during marriage life. These conditions were inserted and writ...
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Taylor-Schechter/fotm/may-2012/index.html
In this talk I gave some examples from the Cairo Geniza avout how Indian ocean trade influenced family life among 12th century Jews of Egypt
