For all those interested in the experience of Jews in the Ottoman realm.
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Nick Posegay deposited Searching for the Last Genizah Fragment in Late Ottoman Cairo: A Material Survey of Egyptian Jewish Literary Culture in the group
Ottoman Jewish Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoThe Cairo Genizah is well known as a repository for hundreds of thousands of manuscripts that the Jewish residents of Fustat (Old Cairo) produced and consumed in the premodern period. Foreign “collectors” acquired most of these manuscripts for European libraries in the second half of the nineteenth century, with the majority arriving at the Cam…[Read more]
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Canan Bolel created the group
Ottoman Jewish Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months ago
