The Speakers Action Group

THE CAIRO GENIZAH: MEDIEVAL HISTORY REVEALED

MENACHEM BEN-SASSON,
Professor, Hebrew University, Member of Knesset, Chairman of the
Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, is a world-renowned expert in
the history of Medieval Jewry in Muslim lands.

The Cairo Genizah,
uncovered in the ruins of an ancient synagogue in 1895, represents
hundreds of thousands of document fragments dating from the 8th century
until after the 15th century, and includes Biblical texts and
commentaries, rabbinic dictionaries, poetry, liturgical texts,
philosophical and commercial documents, manuscripts, and letters
written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, Arabic, Judeo-Persian and
Yiddish.

The Genizah is a window into nearly 1000 years of Jewish and Middle Eastern
history, scholarship and daily life, and comprises the largest and most
diverse collection of medieval manuscripts in the world.

Sponsored by the Friedberg Genizah Project www.genizah.org,
The Speakers Action Group, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem
Canada (ICEJ), and Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University.

Reservation required.