The Centre holds monthy seminars throughout the Academic year, inviting guest Speakers from Israel and abroad to discuss a wide range of Genizah related topics.
Seminar 2015:
Anat Raizel - Tales of Destruction in Eicha Zuta: A Compostional, Literary and Ideological Perpective
Dr. Ora Moled - Attire in Jewish Mediterranean Society as Reflected by the Cairo Genizah
Vered Raziel-Kremzer- Siddurs From the Land of Israel in the Genizah: The Opening for Shacharit and Other Riddles
Dr. Miriam Fraenkel - Reading Hour: The Revolution of the Book in the Jewish Society in the Arab World in the Middle Ages.
Prof. Yuval Harari - Hanina Ben Dosa:- "Perkei D'Rabbi Hanina" and other Sources.
Dr. Reuven Kipperwasser - Scribal Errors and Redactors Deeds: On the Development and Transmission of the Rabbinal Literature
Prof. Stephen Fraade- The Torah Inscribed / Transcribed in Seventy Languages
Seminar 2016:
Professor R. Brody: Remnants of Gaonic Literature in the Cairo Genizah
Asaf Rosen Tzvi : Between Redaction and Transmission: The Contribution of the Genizah to the Study of Mekhilta of Rabbi Yishmael
Seminar 2017
Rachel Kenneth-Hason: Judeo-Arabic Folklore Manuscripts from the Firkovitz collection
vDr Oded Zinger: How did an Arab Queen turn into a Yiddshe Mama: Tales of Martial Advice around the Mediterrean Sea
Prof. Joseph Ofer: The Triennial Cycle of the Haftorarot: Evidence from the Genizah
Dr. Menachem Katz: "HachiGarsinan", the Friedberg Talmud Variants Project – from the Cairo Genizah to the European Genizah
Darya Varyowtsky-Shapira: The Firkovitz Collections: The Forgery Dispute
Seminar 2018
Moshe Yagur: Three Converts and their Significance in Determining the Boundaraies of the Medieval Jewish Community in Egypt.
Recipient of The Joseph & Racheline Barda Chair for the Study and Research of Jewish Heritage In Egypt 2017
Isaac Landes (Princeton University) The Politics of the Oral Torah at the end of the Tenth Century - A New Look at the Letter of R'Sherira's Gaon
Avigail Manekin Bamberger (Dept. of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud,Tel Aviv University) - Secret Spells in Tractate Shabbat
Prof. Sacha Stern(University College , London) : The calendar controversy of 921/2 CE: Genizah fragments and the reconstruction of manuscripts
Prof. Ofir Mintz Manor ( Open University) Docotrate Reloaded: What Would have Happened if I had Used Digital Tools to Write my Docotrate on Piyyut?