Amir, you made an exciting discovery last week. Can you tell us about it?
Yes! I'm describing some documents at the moment for the Princeton Geniza Project, and while going through some of the manuscripts of the Jewish Theological Seminary I encountered two fragments containing a long piyyut.
There are tens of thousands of these piyyutim – liturgical poems – in the Genizah, and they’re not your area of research. Why did this one catch your eye?
It was written by a hand very familiar to me. It was the handwriting of Halfon b. Nathaniel... Read More