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Bottomless pit: The Cairo Geniza and the untold history of Medieval Jewry

Bottomless pit: The Cairo Geniza and the untold history of Medieval Jewry

FromTel Aviv Review


Bottomless pit: The Cairo Geniza and the untold history of Medieval Jewry

FromTel Aviv Review

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Length:
53 minutes
Released:
Nov 13, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

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Bottomless pit: The Cairo Geniza and the untold history of Medieval Jewry
Dr. Moshe Lavee, a Talmud scholar at the University of Haifa, tells us about the Cairo Genizah – this trove of hundreds of thousands of Jewish texts, religious as well as non-religious, that was found inside a synagogue in the Egyptian capital and documents ten centuries of Jewish life there, most of which has been marginalized by the course of history.
Imperial Capital: The capture of Jerusalem in WWI
Dr. Justin Fantauzzo, a historian at the University of Windsor in Canada, whose research focuses on the capture of Jerusalem by the British army during the First World War. It turns out that the mainstream public opinion in Europe did not catch the Jerusalem syndrome – or perhaps they did, but not for the usual reasons.
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Released:
Nov 13, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

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Showcasing the latest developments in the realm of academic and professional research and literature, about the Middle East and global affairs. We discuss Israeli, Arab and Palestinian society, the Jewish world, the Middle East and its conflicts, and issues of global and public affairs with scholars, writers and deep-thinkers.