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Genizah Seminar: Lectures

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   youTube

 Seminar 2016: 

Professor R. Brody: Remnants of Gaonic Literature in the Cairo Genizah youTube

 Asaf Rosen Tzvi : Between Redaction and Transmission: The Contribution of the Genizah to the Study of Mekhilta of Rabbi Yishmael  youTube

Seminar 2017

Rachel Kenneth-Hason: Judeo-Arabic Folklore Manuscripts from the Firkovitz collection youTube

vDr Oded Zinger: How did an Arab Queen turn into a Yiddshe Mama: Tales of Martial Advice around the Mediterrean Sea youTube

 Prof. Joseph Ofer: The Triennial Cycle of the Haftorarot: Evidence from the Genizah youTube

Dr. Menachem Katz"HachiGarsinan", the Friedberg Talmud Variants Project – from the Cairo Genizah to the European Genizah youTube

 Darya  Varyowtsky-Shapira: The Firkovitz Collections: The Forgery Dispute youTube

 

Seminar 2018

Moshe Yagur: Three Converts and their Significance in Determining  the Boundaraies of the Medieval Jewish Community in Egypt. youTube

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 youTube

Avigail Manekin Bamberger (Dept. of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud,Tel Aviv University)  - Secret Spells in Tractate Shabbat youTube

 

Prof. Sacha Stern(University College , London)The calendar controversy of 921/2 CE: Genizah fragments and the reconstruction of manuscripts youTube

 Prof.  Ofir Mintz Manor ( Open University)  Docotrate Reloaded: What Would have Happened if I had Used Digital Tools to Write my Docotrate on Piyyut?  youTube