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This collection of essays celebrates 50 years since the founding of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library. Three generations of scholars contributed their research and memories from their time at the GRU, stretching back to 1974. Their work comprises 18 articles on medieval Jewish History, Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts, archival history, and the story of the Cairo Genizah collections at the University of Cambridge. Together, they demonstrate the achievements of GRU alumni in advancing the field of Genizah Studies for more than five decades.

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Nick Posegay, PhD (Cambridge 2021) is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Cambridge Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. He has written numerous articles on medieval Middle Eastern History and an award-winning monograph, Points of Contact (2021). Magdalen M. Connolly, PhD (Cambridge 2018) is a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Near & Middle Eastern Studies, LMU Munich. She has published extensively in Arabic historical linguistics and Genizah Studies and is the author of Pre-Modern Judaeo-Arabic Folk Narratives and Letters: A Study in Variation (Brill, 2024). Ben Outhwaite, PhD (Cambridge 2000) has been head of Cambridge University Library’s Genizah Research Unit since 2006 with responsibility for the ca. 200,000 manuscripts of the Cairo Genizah held there. He has published widely on Jewish manuscripts, medieval history, and the Hebrew language.

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