Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issues 8 and 9 of the printed edition of Genizah Fragments, published in October 1984 and April 1985, by Shaul Shaked:
Among their varied treasures, the Cairo Genizah collections contain valuable materials for the study of a number of fields of Jewish and general interest for which they have, until now, hardly been used at all. Among these fields are Judaeo-Persian texts and magic fragments and it was to... Read Moremystical
Melonie Schmierer-Lee
on Thu 16 Sep 2021
Has tags: Genizah Fragments, Karaite, magic, mystical, palimpsest, Persian
Melonie Schmierer-Lee
on Thu 2 Sep 2021
Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 4 of the printed edition of Genizah Fragments, published in October 1982:
The Genizah has proved to be a mine of biographical information about the scholars of mediaeval Egypt, especially of the Maimonides family who were leaders of Egyptian Jewry for over 200 years. Indeed, communal and literary documents have come to light which testify to the sustained intellectual activity of Oriental Jewry’s most illustrious family. Dr Paul Fenton,... Read MoreHas tags: Abraham Maimonides, Genizah Fragments, Moses Maimonides, mystical, Sufism