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Q&A Wednesday: a Genizah Street View with Moshe Yagur
Hi Moshe, what are you working on at the moment?
In my new project I’m working on dwelling patterns of Jews, Christians and Muslims in medieval Egypt (and a bit elsewhere). We know they lived side by side, but to what extent? How did it effect notions of communal identity, religious practices, inter-religious contacts and sympathies, and so on?
Which kinds of Genizah manuscript are you utilising for this?
There are several kinds of documents to look at:
