In the late medieval period manuscripts galore circulated in private collections and in
educational libraries in the cities of the Middle East. Yet very few have left a documentary …

This article takes a look at the career of Moses Shapira, the notorious bookseller, antiquities
dealer, and possible forger of 19th-century Jerusalem. Despite Shapira's fame among …

The Cairo Genizah is well known as a repository for hundreds of thousands of manuscripts
that the Jewish residents of Fustat (Old Cairo) produced and consumed in the premodern …

This study explores the notion of Jewish identity in the Aramaic DSS through the lens of the
individual figures of Levi, Qahat, and Amram, and their associated traditions. It traces …

Abstract Saadiah Gaon (882–942 CE) is counted among the most influential scholars of
Judaeo-Arabic culture. His translation of the Tora into Arabic, which was produced in the first …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Composition Analysis of Writing Materials in Cairo Genizah
Documents Page 3 Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval Fondées par Georges Vajda Rédacteur …

This study explores the intriguing interface of the presentation of the collective community in
the Dead Sea Scrolls and the question of how and whether this can be related to the real-life …

The Cairo Genizah is a repository of texts spanning more than a millennium of Jewish
history, including thousands of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts now held in …

Many Jewish communities around the world have maintained a special site, known as a
genizah, for discarding written materials. This article focuses on the genizah of the town of …

The Damascus Affair of 1840 has often been interpreted as one the finest hours of modern
Jewish solidarity. This essay probes an unexplored legacy of that chain of events, a sense of …