Knowledge Commons | Ottoman Jewish Studies | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/ottoman-jewish-studies/ Activity feed for the group, Ottoman Jewish Studies. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:10:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a98568ea227af80dd9c5804fc0e4ac8c Nick Posegay deposited Eleven Colophons by Ten Printers from Seven Cities in the Cairo Genizah in the group Ottoman Jewish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886344/ Thu, 16 May 2024 03:01:14 -0400 While the Cairo Genizah is mainly known as a repository of medieval manuscripts, modern Genizah collections also contain thousands of folios from texts printed with moveable type between 1500 and 1900. Most of these imprints come from Europe, but almost all of them reached the Cairene Jewish community at some point before 1897. They are also among…[Read more]

]]> 0 96efcdc0bc89988277d2911024774261 Nick Posegay deposited Hebrew Printing and Printers’ Colophons in the Cairo Genizah: Networking Book Trade in Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the group Ottoman Jewish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862100/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 03:00:13 -0400 The Cairo Genizah is famous as a source of manuscripts for the study of the medieval Mediterranean world, especially Jewish communities during the High Middle Ages. However, among the hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern manuscript fragments in Genizah collections are more than 12,000 moveable-type printed items, most of which come from Europe.…[Read more]

]]> 0 b3dd0df4a7e8e10988877fdb6cf669fa 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782565/ Thu, 26 May 2022 02:24:10 -0400 The 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]

]]> 0 5384f4b2048bd20e42545ae1bfb378c7 Canan Bolel created the group Ottoman Jewish Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1592455/ Thu, 14 Dec 2017 07:10:46 -0500 0