Talks
The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography
Paul Seaward on "The History of the Rebellion" by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
Cambridge University Library
A refuge for writings: further details from the Genizah of medieval Cairo
Sat 9 September 2017
Cambridge University Library
This Open Cambridge event offers an exclusive opportunity to gain unique access to significant additional content from the University Library's Discarded History exhibition.
For over a thousand years, the Jewish community of Old Cairo deposited their unwanted writings in a purpose-built storeroom in the Ben Ezra synagogue. Their discarded documents provide a glimpse into a Jewish community at the centre of a thriving Islamic empire. A community concerned with the very things to which humanity has looked for much of its existence: love, sex and marriage, money and business, and ultimately death.
Cost: Free
Enquiries and booking
No need to book.
Enquiries: Francesca Harper Website Email: fh322@cam.ac.uk Telephone: 01223333920