- Ben Gurion University of the Negev, I-CORE center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters, Department MemberPrinceton University, Near Eastern Studies, Department Member, and 5 moreadd
- Cairo Genizah, Women's History, History of the Family, Marriage (History), Judeo-Arabic, Indian Ocean History, and 46 moreTalmud, Hebrew Manuscripts, Jewish Studies, Hebrew Language, Languages and Linguistics, Hebrew Bible, Maimonides, Jewish Law, Jewish History, Mediterranean Studies, Social History, Medieval History, History of Medicine, Al-Andalus society, Medieval Women, Marriage and Divorce, Medieval Jewish History, Marriage, Jewish Languages and Linguistics, Jewish Languages, Judeo-Arabic Manuscripts, Genizah, Genizah research, Rabbinics, Rabbinic Literature, Islamic Studies, Medieval Islam, Jewish Thought, Jewish-Muslim Relations, Micrography, Medieval Judaica, Near Eastern Judaica, Judaeo Arabic Literature, Arabic, Syriac, Hebrew, Aramaic, Religious Conversion, Women's Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Women and Gender Issues in Islam, Women and Culture, Gender and religion (Women s Studies), Abrahamic Religions, Biblical Exegesis, and Arabic Bible Translationedit
- A former senior research fellow in the Center of Conversion and Inter-Religious Enconters, Ben Gurion University. A f... moreA former senior research fellow in the Center of Conversion and Inter-Religious Enconters, Ben Gurion University. A former student of Prof. M.A. Friedman from Tel-Aviv University, and working with him on various projects relating to Genizah research, among them the ‘India Book’ and Judeo-Arabic dictionary. I've been working as a Research Associate at the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, since April 2010, in identification and description of Judaeo-Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew fragments, with a particular focus on the ‘documentary Genizah’ – letters, legal documents and other documents that represent the daily life of the Genizah world. Since 2012 I'm running my own research on Maimonides and Maimonidean related documents in the Cambridge Geniza collections, supported by BA/Leverlhume small grant and Fritz Thyssen Stiftung. From 2014 I'm affilated with the The Center for the Interdisciplinary Research of the Cairo Genizah in University of Haifa, and working on medical material from the Genizah together with Prof. Efraim Lev. Research Fellow, Center for the Study of the Jews of Spain and Islamic Lands: Past and Present, University of Haifa, collborating with Prof. Tamar Zewi on identifying early bible translations of Saadya Gaon, and a member of the Biblia Arabica project. In 2017 I was a visiting scholar at the department of near eastern studies, Princeton Univesity. In December 2017-January 2018 I was a visiting faculty member at the department of Religious studies, University of Tokyo. Serving also as a Senior Research Assistant, Princeton Geniza Project, Princeton University. Both my MA (Engagement Documents from the Cairo Geniza, Tel Aviv University 2000, Magna Cum Laude) and PhD (Engagement and Betrothal documents from the Cairo Geniza, Tel Aviv University 2006) dissertations deal with family life and marriage in Genizah society. email: aashur@princeton.eduedit
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Research Interests: Jewish Law, Jewish Studies, Jewish History, Marriage and Divorce, Hebrew Manuscripts, and 11 moreMedieval Jewish History, Judeo-Arabic, Marriage (History), Life Rituals (i.e. birth, marriage, death etc.), Judeo-Arabic Culture in the Middle Ages, Theological Relationships between Islam (in particular Shi'i Islam) and Judaism, Meta-Historical Theological Structures., Judeo-Arabic Literature and Culture, Judeo-Arabic Manuscripts, Judaeo-Arabic, Pre-Nuptial Agreements, Jewish Marriage, and Jewish Marriage Contracts
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Research Interests: Jewish Law, Jewish Studies, Maritime History, Jewish History, Mediterranean Studies, and 13 moreMedieval Hebrew Literature, Hebrew Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic, Indian Ocean Trade, Historical Development of Halakhah, Judæo-Arabic and Judæo-Persian Literature, Cairo Genizah, Judeo-Arabic Literature and Culture, Judeo-Arabic Manuscripts, History of Halakha and Jewish Law, Judaeo-Arabic, Judeo-Arabic Language and Linguistics, and Judaeo Arabic Literature
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The document published in this article is a letter of introduction written by a Karaite Andalusi Jew upon his arrival to Egypt, on his route to Jerusalem. The text, which was deposited in the Cairo Genizah, is currently held at Cambridge... more
The document published in this article is a letter of introduction written by a Karaite Andalusi Jew upon his arrival to Egypt, on his route to Jerusalem. The text, which was deposited in the Cairo Genizah, is currently held at Cambridge University Library in the Taylor-Schechter Collection (Genizah Research Unit). Although undated, the text has the distinction of being the only known letter written by an Andalusi who presents himself as a Karaite, and is thus a first-person confirmation of the presence of this religious group in al-Andalus.
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The article discusses JTS ENA NS 69.12, a Genizah fragment of Saadya Gaon’s translation of Numbers 27.18-22, 28.2-7, whose scribe can be identified as Mevōrākh b. Nāthān, a well-known scribe active in Fusṭāṭ in 1150–1180 CE. The article... more
The article discusses JTS ENA NS 69.12, a Genizah fragment of Saadya Gaon’s translation of Numbers 27.18-22, 28.2-7, whose scribe can be identified as Mevōrākh b. Nāthān, a well-known scribe active in Fusṭāṭ in 1150–1180 CE. The article includes its transcription, a critical apparatus, and its philological and linguistic analysis. This Genizah fragment shows similarities to other fragments of Saadya’s translation copied in the 12th century and reflects various Middle Judeo-Arabic features but also follows in various aspects the version found in the earliest dated inclusive manuscript of Saadya Gaon’s translation of the Pentateuch known to us, MS St. Petersburg RNL Yevr. II C 1, copied by Samuel ben Jacob in the beginning of the 11 th century.
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Research Interests: Philology, Translation Studies, Languages and Linguistics, Semitic languages, Arabic Language and Linguistics, and 15 moreComparative Semitic Linguistics, Arabic, Hebrew Bible, Biblical Studies, Bible Translation, Linguistics, Hebrew Manuscripts, Bible, Codicology of medieval manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic, Translation, Biblical Hebrew (Languages And Linguistics), Cairo Genizah, Judaeo-Arabic, and Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
In this essay I examine the content, form, and structure of different genres of prenuptial agreements found in the Cairo Geniza.
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The use of veils among contemporary Muslim women triggers a large range of emotions and concepts in the general public and among Muslim communities in different places.The general public perception of veiling shifts from manifestations of... more
The use of veils among contemporary Muslim women triggers a large range of emotions and concepts in the general public and among Muslim communities in different places.The general public perception of veiling shifts from manifestations of female oppression to concepts of liberation of women from the male gaze. Individuals, as well as state institutions attempt at controlling the use of veils, either by restricting or enforcing it. Up to day, veiling is a sphere where contesting identities clash and at times attract public debates. Several such incidents have raised international public discourse, in Germany, and elsewhere. In 2016 France attempted at declaring the “Burka Law”, but since was suspended. Several other places attempted at declaring a similar law, e.g. Swiss, Germany and Québec; And the French law forbidding religious marks in schools. These are but a few of the recent incidents concerning female cover in public.
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Maimonides' contemporaries began collecting his responsa during his lifetime. Most of his preserved responsa are found in such collections in manuscripts outside the Geniza. The Geniza fragments edited in this article belong to a class of... more
Maimonides' contemporaries began collecting his responsa during his lifetime. Most of his preserved responsa are found in such collections in manuscripts outside the Geniza. The Geniza fragments edited in this article belong to a class of their own. As far as we know, registers of Maimonidean responsa, or rather of queries addressed to Maimonides, have not been identified elsewhere. A list from the British Library (BL Or. 10801.1–2) includes items numbered 17–108. The pages formed a table of contents or index of a collection of responsa, probably from the fifteenth–sixteenth centuries. Of the 82 legible entries, 63 are identifiable as known queries to Maimonides. We can assume that the remaining, unidentified items also belong to Maimonides' responsa. The wording of the opening line often contains variants and the order of many entries differs from that in extant collections. A few entries preserved elsewhere in Hebrew translation appear here in the original Judeo-Arabic.
The British Library also contains four pages from the manuscript of Maimonidean responsa for which the complete list served as table of contents or index. Joshua Blau already included these texts in his edition of Rambam's responsa. The Russian National Library in St. Petersburg (RNL Evr. Arab. II 3390) contains a manuscript that includes the complete texts of nos. (70)–77 in the list. Most of these responsa appear, with minor variants, in Blau's edition, under different numbers. No. 75 appears there (as no. 380) in an abbreviated version in Hebrew. The RNL manuscript preserves the complete Judeo-Arabic text of the query and responsum, written in 1173. The latter portion of this article contains an edition of the text with translation and notes. The query concerns a family dispute between a widower and his in-laws concerning ownership of a property from the dowry of the deceased woman, a dispute which involved appeals to Muslim courts.
The British Library also contains four pages from the manuscript of Maimonidean responsa for which the complete list served as table of contents or index. Joshua Blau already included these texts in his edition of Rambam's responsa. The Russian National Library in St. Petersburg (RNL Evr. Arab. II 3390) contains a manuscript that includes the complete texts of nos. (70)–77 in the list. Most of these responsa appear, with minor variants, in Blau's edition, under different numbers. No. 75 appears there (as no. 380) in an abbreviated version in Hebrew. The RNL manuscript preserves the complete Judeo-Arabic text of the query and responsum, written in 1173. The latter portion of this article contains an edition of the text with translation and notes. The query concerns a family dispute between a widower and his in-laws concerning ownership of a property from the dowry of the deceased woman, a dispute which involved appeals to Muslim courts.
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Maimonides' contemporaries began collecting his responsa during his lifetime. Most of his preserved responsa are found in such collections in manuscripts outside the Geniza. The Geniza fragments edited in this article belong to a class of... more
Maimonides' contemporaries began collecting his responsa during his lifetime. Most of his preserved responsa are found in such collections in manuscripts outside the Geniza. The Geniza fragments edited in this article belong to a class of their own. As far as we know, registers of Maimonidean responsa, or rather of queries addressed to Maimonides, have not been identified elsewhere. A list from the British Library (BL Or. 10801.1–2) includes items numbered 17–108. The pages formed a table of contents or index of a collection of responsa, probably from the fifteenth–sixteenth centuries. Of the 82 legible entries, 63 are identifiable as known queries to Maimonides. We can assume that the remaining, unidentified items also belong to Maimonides' responsa. The wording of the opening line often contains variants and the order of many entries differs from that in extant collections. A few entries preserved elsewhere in Hebrew translation appear here in the original Judeo-Arabic.
The British Library also contains four pages from the manuscript of Maimonidean responsa for which the complete list served as table of contents or index. Joshua Blau already included these texts in his edition of Rambam's responsa. The Russian National Library in St. Petersburg (RNL Evr. Arab. II 3390) contains a manuscript that includes the complete texts of nos. (70)–77 in the list. Most of these responsa appear, with minor variants, in Blau's edition, under different numbers. No. 75 appears there (as no. 380) in an abbreviated version in Hebrew. The RNL manuscript preserves the complete Judeo-Arabic text of the query and responsum, written in 1173. The latter portion of this article contains an edition of the text with translation and notes. The query concerns a family dispute between a widower and his in-laws concerning ownership of a property from the dowry of the deceased woman, a dispute which involved appeals to Muslim courts.
The British Library also contains four pages from the manuscript of Maimonidean responsa for which the complete list served as table of contents or index. Joshua Blau already included these texts in his edition of Rambam's responsa. The Russian National Library in St. Petersburg (RNL Evr. Arab. II 3390) contains a manuscript that includes the complete texts of nos. (70)–77 in the list. Most of these responsa appear, with minor variants, in Blau's edition, under different numbers. No. 75 appears there (as no. 380) in an abbreviated version in Hebrew. The RNL manuscript preserves the complete Judeo-Arabic text of the query and responsum, written in 1173. The latter portion of this article contains an edition of the text with translation and notes. The query concerns a family dispute between a widower and his in-laws concerning ownership of a property from the dowry of the deceased woman, a dispute which involved appeals to Muslim courts.
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The article presents a Jewish marriage deed, a ketubba, which was written in Sanaa in 1899 CE and later found among the Genizah manuscripts brought out of Egypt. It was written in Aramaic, Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic by a skilled scribe, and... more
The article presents a Jewish marriage deed, a ketubba, which was written in Sanaa in 1899 CE and later found among the Genizah manuscripts brought out of Egypt. It was written in Aramaic, Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic by a skilled scribe, and is, in fact, a replacement deed, written instead of one that had previously been lost by the couple. On the back it includes arrangements for paying back money that the husband owes his wife. The contract is evidence of the skill of its scribe and the pious adherence of the Jewish community of Yemen to all the legal and traditional aspects of marriage, passed down to them over the centuries. The couple must have left Yemen for Egypt sometime after 1899 and before 1912, when the deed was acquired by Jack Mosseri, an Egyptian Jewish collector of manuscripts.
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The article presents a Hebrew letter sent from Dū Jibla in Yemen to Fusṭāṭ, Egypt, around 1095 C.E. The letter was written by a local leader in Yemen and stresses the allegiance of the Jewish community to Mevora b. Saʿadya, who had... more
The article presents a Hebrew letter sent from Dū Jibla in Yemen to Fusṭāṭ, Egypt, around 1095 C.E. The letter was written by a local leader in Yemen and stresses the allegiance of the Jewish community to Mevora b. Saʿadya, who had recently been reappointed 'Head of the Jews' in the Fāṭimid Empire. Traditionally the Jews of Yemen, like those of Arabia, fell within the sphere of influence of the Babylonian Academies in the Geonic period. This letter is further evidence that the Jews of Yemen kept close ties to Egypt and the Palestinian Academy too. Résumé Cet article présente une lettre en hébreu envoyée de ū ibla, au Yémen, à Fusṭāṭ (Égypte) aux alen-tours de 1095 de notre ère. La lettre a été écrite par un dirigeant juif local du Yémen, qui souligne l'allégeance de sa communauté à Mevora b. Saʿadya, récemment nommé « Chef des Juifs » de l'Empire fatimide. Traditionnellement, les Juifs du Yémen, de même que ceux d'Arabie, faisaient partie de la zone d'influence des institutions babyloniennes de la période gaonique. Cette lettre est une preuve de plus du fait que les Juifs du Yémen conservaient des liens étroits avec les institutions égyptiennes, aussi bien que palestiniennes.
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In this paper we offer an introduction to some marriage customs, which were probably of Spanish origin, or were also used in Spain, known through the documents of Cairo Genizah. Due to both the scarcity of evidence and the need for... more
In this paper we offer an introduction to some
marriage customs, which were probably of
Spanish origin, or were also used in Spain,
known through the documents of Cairo
Genizah. Due to both the scarcity of evidence
and the need for further investigation, this
paper should be considered as a seed for
preliminary research.
En este trabajo investigamos algunas costumbres
matrimoniales documentadas en los
documentos de la Genizah de El Cairo, que
son probablemente de origen español, o que
también se utilizaron en España. Debido a la
escasez de la información y a la necesidad de
investigación adicional necesaria, este trabajo
ha de entenderse como un primer acercamiento
a la investigación.
marriage customs, which were probably of
Spanish origin, or were also used in Spain,
known through the documents of Cairo
Genizah. Due to both the scarcity of evidence
and the need for further investigation, this
paper should be considered as a seed for
preliminary research.
En este trabajo investigamos algunas costumbres
matrimoniales documentadas en los
documentos de la Genizah de El Cairo, que
son probablemente de origen español, o que
también se utilizaron en España. Debido a la
escasez de la información y a la necesidad de
investigación adicional necesaria, este trabajo
ha de entenderse como un primer acercamiento
a la investigación.
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A study of two documents from the Cairo Genizah, a vast repository of medieval Jewish writings recovered from a synagogue in Fusṭāṭ, Egypt, one hundred years ago, shows the importance of this archive for the history of medieval Yemen... more
A study of two documents from the Cairo Genizah, a vast repository of medieval Jewish writings recovered from a synagogue in Fusṭāṭ, Egypt, one hundred years ago, shows
the importance of this archive for the history of medieval Yemen and, in particular,
for the role that Yemen played in the Indian Ocean trade as both a commercial and administrative hub. The first document is a letter from Aden to Fusṭāṭ, dated 1133ce,
explaining the Aden Jewish community’s failure to raise funds to send to the heads of
the Palestinian Gaonate in Egypt.It signals the decline of that venerable institution and the increasing independence of the Yemeni Jews. The second text is a legal document, produced by an Egyptian Jewish trader who intended to travel to Yemen, but who wished to ensure his wife was provided for in his absence. Both documents show the close ties between the Egyptian and Yemeni Jewish communities and the increasing commercial importance of Yemen to Egyptian traders.
the importance of this archive for the history of medieval Yemen and, in particular,
for the role that Yemen played in the Indian Ocean trade as both a commercial and administrative hub. The first document is a letter from Aden to Fusṭāṭ, dated 1133ce,
explaining the Aden Jewish community’s failure to raise funds to send to the heads of
the Palestinian Gaonate in Egypt.It signals the decline of that venerable institution and the increasing independence of the Yemeni Jews. The second text is a legal document, produced by an Egyptian Jewish trader who intended to travel to Yemen, but who wished to ensure his wife was provided for in his absence. Both documents show the close ties between the Egyptian and Yemeni Jewish communities and the increasing commercial importance of Yemen to Egyptian traders.
Research Interests: Jewish Law, Jewish Studies, Medieval History, Middle East Studies, Hebrew Language, and 14 moreMiddle East History, Jewish History, Indian Ocean History, Yemen, Ancient Hebrew, Hebrew Manuscripts, Medieval Jewish History, Indian Ocean World, Judeo-Arabic, Indian Ocean Trade, Marriage (History), Hebrew, Yemen (History), and Cairo Genizah
Research Interests: Pharmacology, Jewish Studies, History of Medicine, History of Science, Ayurvedic Medicine, and 59 moreComplementary and Alternative Medicine, Traditional Medicine, Jewish History, Herbals, Medicinal Plants, Herbal Medics, Ancient Medicine, Jewish Languages and Linguistics, Hebrew Manuscripts, Medicine, Codicology of medieval manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic, Herbal Pharmaceuticals, Maimonides, Herbal Medicine, Herbal medicines, Medieval spices, Medical History, Herbs, Herbarium, Herbalism, Medicinal plants and natural products, Cairo Genizah, Genizah, Medicina, Aromatic and Medicinal Plants, Herbal,herbal Medicines,herbal Pharmacy, Herbal & Unani Medicines, Plantas Medicinales, Plantas aromaticas y medicinales, Healing with herbs and meditation, Aromatic plants, Alternative Medicine, Herbal Drugs, Judeo-Arabic Studies, Judeo-Arabic Manuscripts, Natural Drugs, Herbal Medicine, Phytopharmaceuticals, medicinal & Aromatic plants, Herbs & Spices, Herbal, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Judeo-Arabic Language and Linguistics, .Ethnobotanical study towards conservation of medicinal and aromatic plants, Spices, Extractos Plantas Aromaticas Y Medicinales, Herbal Research, Plantas Medicinais, Medicinal herbs, Herbs and Spices, Medicinal Herbs, Nutrition, Supplements, Healing with Herbs, Codicology and Palaeography of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts, Plantas Medicinales Indigenas, Herb and spices, Wild/Indigenous & Traditional Food Plants, Healing Herbs of the Ancients, Natural Medecine, Islamic Alternative Healing, and Medicinal Plant Pharmacology
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Research Interests: Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Ophthalmology, Jewish Studies, Ethnobotany, and 67 moreHistory of Medicine, Environmental Toxicology, Phytochemistry, History of Science, Ayurvedic Medicine, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Traditional Medicine, Toxicology, Jewish History, Herbals, Egyptian History, Pharmacognosy, Medicinal Plants, Herbal Medics, Arabic Dialects, History of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Ancient Medicine, Hebrew Manuscripts, Social History of Medicine, Medicine, Codicology of medieval manuscripts, Natural Products and Traditional Systems of Medicine, Judeo-Arabic, Herbal Pharmaceuticals, Medieval Herbals, Herbal Medicine, Phytotherapy, Herbal medicines, Medieval spices, Herbs, Herbalism, Medicinal plants and natural products, Cairo Genizah, Medicina, Aromatic and Medicinal Plants, Natural Medicine, Herbal,herbal Medicines,herbal Pharmacy, Medicinal Plants, Traditional Knowledge, Plantas Medicinales, Plantas aromaticas y medicinales, Healing with herbs and meditation, Aromatic plants, Arabic Medicine, Traditional Herbal Medicine, Herbal Drugs, Medieval Medicine and Herbals, Judeo-Arabic Literature and Culture, Judeo-Arabic Manuscripts, Natural Drugs, Herbal Medicine, Phytopharmaceuticals, medicinal & Aromatic plants, Herbs & Spices, Herbal, Medieval Jewish-Islamic science (Medicine); medieval Arabic-Hebrew medical terminology, Natural product research, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Judeo-Arabic Language and Linguistics, .Ethnobotanical study towards conservation of medicinal and aromatic plants, Pharmacognostic studies on medicinal plants, Isolation and characterisation of anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial agents from natural sources, Spices, Plantas Medicinais, Medicinal herbs, Herbs and Spices, Medicinal Herbs, Nutrition, Supplements, Healing with Herbs, Plantas Medicinales Indigenas, Healing Herbs of the Ancients, and Herbal Sciences
Research Interests: Jewish Law, Jewish Studies, Jewish History, Hebrew Manuscripts, Medieval Jewish History, and 13 moreCodicology of medieval manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic, Historical Development of Halakhah, Maimonides, Cairo Genizah, Genizah, Medieval jewellery, History of Halakhah, Judeo-Arabic Literature and Culture, Judeo-Arabic Manuscripts, History of Halakha and Jewish Law, Judeo-Arabic Language and Linguistics, and Genizah Studies
Research Interests: Jewish Law, Jewish Studies, Jewish History, Al-Andalus, History of the Jews, and 14 moreHebrew Manuscripts, Medieval Jewish History, Judeo-Arabic, Historical Development of Halakhah, Marriage (History), History of Jewish Law, Legal Philosophy, Semiotics of Law, Cairo Genizah, Jews of Medieval Spain, History of the Jews in Spain, History of Halakhah, Judeo-Arabic Literature and Culture, Judeo-Arabic Manuscripts, History of Halakha and Jewish Law, and Judeo-Arabic Language and Linguistics
In the Cairo Genizah we find thousands of documents related to marriage and family life. These serve as unique and rich material for the research of the family life of the Jews of Egypt in the medieval period. It was common among the... more
In the Cairo Genizah we find thousands of documents related to marriage and family life. These serve as unique and rich material for the research of the family life of the Jews of Egypt in the medieval period. It was common among the Genizah people to agree on certain conditions to apply during marriage life. These conditions were inserted and written in the pre-nuptial agreements. Most conditions are in favour of the women and served mainly to protect them from their husbands’ misbehaviour. In this article I will compare various Jewish marriage documents, found in the Cairo Genizah, with parallel Arabic (Muslim and Coptic) sources. I will concentrate on those agreements that contain stipulations that were explicitly written in order to protect the wife from their husband’s bad behaviour. Both Muslim and Jewish societies had to deal with the same problems concerning the status of women, and we will be able to find out what measures were taken by each society, and their approach toward married life and women’s status. I want to thank my colleagues in the Taylor-Shechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, and especialy to Dr. Ben Outhwaith, for reading and commenting this paper.
Research Interests: Jewish Law, Jewish Studies, Women's Studies, Domestic Violence, Women's History, and 30 moreMuslim Family Law, Jewish History, Medieval Islam, Medieval Women, Women and Gender Issues in Islam, Violence Against Women, Egypt, Marriage and Divorce, Gender and religion (Women s Studies), Hebrew Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic, Historical Development of Halakhah, Marriage (History), Women and Culture, Women and Gender Studies, Life Rituals (i.e. birth, marriage, death etc.), Marriage, Cairo Genizah, Genizah, Islam and marriage, Medieval Jewish-Muslim Encounters, Judeo-arabic manuscripts regarding Islam, Polemics of Jewish Authors against Islam, Marriage in Islam, Marriage and Family, Judeo-Arabic Culture in the Middle Ages, Theological Relationships between Islam (in particular Shi'i Islam) and Judaism, Meta-Historical Theological Structures., History of Halakhah, Islamic family law and Muslim feminisms, History of Halakha and Jewish Law, Pre-Nuptial Agreements, Marriage Contract in Islam, and Jewish Marriage
Research Interests: Jewish Law, Jewish Studies, Jewish History, Hebrew Manuscripts, Medieval Jewish History, and 12 moreJudeo-Arabic, Historical Development of Halakhah, Maimonides, Cairo Genizah, Genizah, Medieval Hebrew Literature, Genizah Research, Piyyut, Cairo Geniza, Development of Halacha, Judeo-Arabic Manuscripts, History of Halakha and Jewish Law, Genizah research, and Genizah Studies
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Research Interests: Jewish Studies, Muslim Family Law, Jewish History, Marriage and Divorce, History of the Family, and 14 moreJewish-Muslim Relations, Hebrew Manuscripts, Medieval Jewish History, Muslim-Jewish Relations, Judeo-Arabic, Family history, Marriage (History), Arabic Manuscripts, Women and gender in Muslim societies, Cairo Genizah, Islam and marriage, Judeo-Arabic Manuscripts, Pre-Nuptial Agreements, and Jewish Marriage
Research Interests: Midrash, Hebrew Manuscripts, Maimonides, Piyyut, Cairo Genizah, and 9 moreGenizah, Medieval Hebrew Literature, Genizah Research, Piyyut, Hebrew Poetry, Classical Hebrew Poetry, Codicology and Palaeography of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts, medieval Hebrew poetry, Rabbinic Enumarataions, History of the Book: Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts, and Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts
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Research Interests: Jewish Law, Jewish Studies, Women's Studies, Women's History, Jewish History, and 28 moreMedieval Women, Marriage and Divorce, Jewish Languages and Linguistics, Hebrew Manuscripts, Medieval Jewish History, Jewish Languages, Judeo-Arabic, Historical Development of Halakhah, Maimonides, Marriage (History), Women and Culture, Women and Gender Studies, Life Rituals (i.e. birth, marriage, death etc.), A History of Jewish Law, Woman Studies, Marriage, Cairo Genizah, Genizah, Marriage and Family, Veiling, Islamic History --Veiling in Medieval societies, History of Halakhah, Judeo-Arabic Manuscripts, History of Halakha and Jewish Law, Genizah research, Veiling and headcovering, Sex Before Marriage, and Veiling and Embodiment
The Jewish community of the Yemen is well known for having been amongst the oldest in the Arabian Peninsula with origins in the early first millennium ce, if not far earlier since oral traditions recall a first arrival even before the... more
The Jewish community of the Yemen is well known for having been amongst the oldest in the Arabian Peninsula with origins in the early first millennium ce, if not far earlier since oral traditions recall a first arrival even before the destruction of the First Temple in 587 bce. As one of the most important contemporary scholars of Yemenite Judaism, Yosef (Joseph) Tobi, and other scholars, have noted, this timeline has strongly impacted scholarship on Yemenite Jewry, leading some of the early scholarship on Yemenite Jews to express a “romantic, even Orientalist, view that perceives this community as … embodying unchanged ancient tenets of Judaism from the Talmudic period, and resembling an ‘authentic’ old Jewish society.” This chapter joins a body of more critical approaches now emerging that understand Yemenite Jewry as a dynamic and complex society and it is for this reason that readers find the Yemen paired here with India, a region where firm evidence for a Jewish presence before 1500, and in particular the matter of first arrivals, continues to elude scholars and generates as much debate as the Yemenite material. If this chapter skirts the question of “first arrivals,” it nevertheless links the two regions because a large proportion of it will focus on the exceptional documentary corpus known as the Cairo Genizah and more specifically the body of documents that S. D. Goitein nicknamed his “India Book,” material relating to the Jewish trade between the eastern Mediterranean and South Asia, via the Yemen. While the Yemen, and ʿAden in particular, remain at the center of “India Book” documents, all of this material is deeply entangled through trade, travel, and marriage with South Asia and wider Mediterranean and Indian Ocean networks. The wider context for these connections is, of course, the trans-Eurasian trade boom of the period. The “India Book” material within the Cairo Genizah offers exceptional opportunities to flesh out for the Yemen, but also India, what otherwise remains the barest bones of Jewish history. This material, together with local literary production and extra-communal sources dating to the twelfth to fourteenth centuries – much of it in fact recovered from the Cairo Genizah – offers the potential for new histories and discourses. We start, though, with these barest of bones and the broad outlines of the history of Jews in the Yemen and India.
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The articles in this volume focus on the legal, linguistic, historical and literary roles of Jewish women in the Islamic world of the Middle Ages. Drawing heavily on manuscript evidence from the Cairo Genizah, the authors examine the... more
The articles in this volume focus on the legal, linguistic, historical and literary roles of Jewish women in the Islamic world of the Middle Ages. Drawing heavily on manuscript evidence from the Cairo Genizah, the authors examine the challenges involved in the identi cation and interpretation of women's letters from medieval Egypt, the registers of women's written language, the relations between Jewish women and the Muslim legal system, the conversion of women, visions of women in Hell and gendered readings in the aggadic tradition of Judaism. Readership Those interested in the history or application of Jewish law, particularly as it relates to women in the Middle Ages, and linguists or historians with an interest in gender. For more information see brill.com Order information: Order online at brill.com The Americas: 1 (860) 350 0041 | brillna@turpin-distribution.com Outside the Americas: 44 (0) 1767 604-954 | brill@turpin-distribution.com
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この度、早稲田大学イスラーム地域研究機構エジプト班は、ゲニザ文書の専門家であるアミール・アーシュール氏を招き、ワークショップを行います。エジプト・カイロのベン・エズラ・シナゴーグで発見されたゲニザ文書（カイロ・ゲニザ）は、訴訟や契約に関わる文書から私信まで様々な種類の文書を含む希有なコレクションです。しかし、その史料的価値は認められつつも、イスラーム史研究においてはそれらの利用の余地は未だに多く残されているというのが現状です。本ワークショップでは、ゲニザ文書の背景（伝世状況や... more
この度、早稲田大学イスラーム地域研究機構エジプト班は、ゲニザ文書の専門家であるアミール・アーシュール氏を招き、ワークショップを行います。エジプト・カイロのベン・エズラ・シナゴーグで発見されたゲニザ文書（カイロ・ゲニザ）は、訴訟や契約に関わる文書から私信まで様々な種類の文書を含む希有なコレクションです。しかし、その史料的価値は認められつつも、イスラーム史研究においてはそれらの利用の余地は未だに多く残されているというのが現状です。本ワークショップでは、ゲニザ文書の背景（伝世状況や研究史）を踏まえながら、それをいかにイスラーム史研究に生かすことができるかについて議論していく予定です。ゲニザ文書に触れたことのない人も、またより一層専門的な知識を得たいという人も、本ワークショップを情報共有の場として生かしてもらいたいと思います。
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"Conversions and inter-religious encounters as reflected in the Cairo Geniza The Cairo Geniza is a unique source for the study of the subject. It contains vast amount of relavant material such as letters, legal documents, Halakhic... more
"Conversions and inter-religious encounters as reflected in the Cairo Geniza
The Cairo Geniza is a unique source for the study of the subject. It contains vast amount of relavant material such as letters, legal documents, Halakhic discussions, responsa and polemics. My aim is to search through the collections of the Geniza, in order to identify as much material as possible and to make it available for further research"
The Cairo Geniza is a unique source for the study of the subject. It contains vast amount of relavant material such as letters, legal documents, Halakhic discussions, responsa and polemics. My aim is to search through the collections of the Geniza, in order to identify as much material as possible and to make it available for further research"
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On medicine and physicians as reflected in the documents of the Cairo Geniza.
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The 21st International Conference of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies, Munich, 31st of July – 3rd of August 2023
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One of the most common genres found in the Genizah is the Hebrew poetry that was used in the synagogue for liturgical purposes. Among those in the Cairo Genizah, we find a special class of poems that contain pedagogical information,... more
One of the most common genres found in the Genizah is the Hebrew poetry that was used in the synagogue for liturgical purposes. Among those in the Cairo Genizah, we find a special class of poems that contain pedagogical information, instructing the congregation in day-to-day customs or necessary rituals. In this talk, I will present several examples of this genre, including those that served as a ‘billboard’ – a tool to announce orders from the Head of the Jews to the populace and will compare it with some parallel examples from the Muslim world.
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In this paper, we will present our ongoing research project - New Geonic responsa from the Cairo Genizah. We have identified so far about 300 unknown or unpublished Geonic responsa - in Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic. Among them some... more
In this paper, we will present our ongoing research project - New Geonic responsa from the Cairo Genizah.
We have identified so far about 300 unknown or unpublished Geonic responsa - in Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic. Among them some ancient quires of Saadia Gaon responsa written on vellum, unknown responsa and original Judeo Arabic responsa only known to us in its medieval Hebrew translation. Our aim is to publish a new edition, which contains the original JA with annotated translation and introduction.
In this talk, we will present some highlights of the most interesting documents.
We have identified so far about 300 unknown or unpublished Geonic responsa - in Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic. Among them some ancient quires of Saadia Gaon responsa written on vellum, unknown responsa and original Judeo Arabic responsa only known to us in its medieval Hebrew translation. Our aim is to publish a new edition, which contains the original JA with annotated translation and introduction.
In this talk, we will present some highlights of the most interesting documents.
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In this talk I will describe the research project that was carried on by me in the last two and a half years at the Taylor-Schechter Research Unit in Cambridge, and I will present some newly discovered autographs by Maimonides, responsa... more
In this talk I will describe the research project that was carried on by me in the last two and a half years at the Taylor-Schechter Research Unit in Cambridge, and I will present some newly discovered autographs by Maimonides, responsa and other documents that shed light on his public activity.
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The life and work of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the Middle Ages, is bound up with the remarkable collection of manuscripts known as the Cairo Genizah. Maimonides was a philosopher, a physician, a... more
The life and work of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the Middle Ages, is bound up with the remarkable collection of manuscripts known as the Cairo Genizah. Maimonides was a philosopher, a physician, a scientist, a theologian and a jurist, and he spent most of his adult life in Egypt. Evidence of his prodigious intellectual activities, as well as important information about his life and his social circle, is scattered throughout the vast Genizah archive in both primary and secondary sources: autograph writings from both fair and draft copies of his most famous works; letters and notes in his hand; documents relating to his varied activities in Egypt; and hundreds of copies of his works, ranging from those made within his own lifetime in Egypt to those copied centuries later around the Jewish world. The ongoing project, which involves collating and classifying known fragments from the Genizah and methodically searching it for further traces, seeks to provide scholars with two essential tools: a catalogue of all texts relating to Maimonides' works, classified between the different types, and the discovery of primary sources related to his life, his family and his social circle in Egypt.