Bottomless pit: The Cairo Genizah and the untold history of Medieval Jewry – The Tel Aviv Review

 

Bottomless pit: The Cairo Geniza and the untold history of Medieval Jewry

Dr. Moshe Lavee, a Talmud scholar at the University of Haifa, tells us about the Cairo Genizah – this trove of hundreds of thousands of Jewish texts, religious as well as non-religious, that was found inside a synagogue in the Egyptian capital.

 

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Imperial Capital: The capture of Jerusalem in WWI

Dr. Justin Fantauzzo, a historian at the University of Windsor in Canada, whose research focuses on the capture of Jerusalem by the British army during the First World War.

 

 

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