European Genizah : : newly discovered Hebrew binding fragments in context. european genizah texts and studies, volume 5 / / edited by Andreas Lehnardt.

• Superior document: Studies in Jewish History and Culture ; 63
• TeilnehmendeR: Lehnardt, Andreas,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, New Jersey : : BRILL,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Jewish History and Culture ; 63.; European Genizah: texts and studies ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (331 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

This volume includes contributions presented at two conferences, in Mainz and Jerusalem, and presents new discoveries of binding fragments in several European libraries and archives and abroad. It presents newly discovered texts with unknown Jewish writings from the Middle Ages and analyses fragments of well-known texts, such as textual witnesses of Midrashim. One chapter overviews recent discoveries in certain collections, some of them far beyond the geographical horizon of the original project, but certainly all of European origin. Other chapters study palaeographical and codicological issues of manuscript fragments and Ashkenazic inscriptions. A final article refers to the beginnings of scholarly interest in Hebrew binding fragments in Germany and sheds light on the part played by Christian Hebraists in its development.

Table of Contents

Editor’s Foreword / By: Andreas Lehnardt -- Notes on ContributorsFull Access -- Introduction / By: Andreas Lehnardt -- Fragments of Unknown Texts: Fragments from a Palestinian Rabbinic Work in the European Genizah / By: Simcha Emanuel -- An Ashkenazic Halakhic Fragment from a Book Binding in Leiden University Library / By: Yakov Z. Mayer and Alexander van der Haven -- An Unknown Fragment of a Money Lending Ledger from Dresden Municipal Archive / By: Abraham David -- Fragments of Known Texts: Fragments of Midrash Sifra on Leviticus in the Baden State Library in Karlsruhe / By: Andreas Lehnardt -- A “New” Fragment of Sifre Numbers, Wrocław I-F-205 / By: Amit Gvaryahu -- Two New Fragments of Midrash Bereshit Rabbah in the State and University Library Bremen / By: Andreas Lehnardt -- Overviews on Fragment Collections: Loans of Books and Kabbalah in the Fragments from the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome / By: Emma Abate -- Newly Discovered Hebrew Binding Fragments from the Austrian “Genizah”: Progress Report in the Project: http://hebraica.at / By: Neri Y. Ariel -- Revelation in Girona: Lost Literature from the “Jerusalem of Catalonia” / By: Leor Jacobi -- A Rare Piyyuṭ Text Used as a Binding Fragment in Torat Moshe (Venice, 1601) Held in the University of Sydney Library / By: Gary A. Rendsburg -- Palaeography and Codicology: Between Writing and Drawing: A Few Remarks about Medieval Ashkenazi Bibles and Pentateuchs /By: Judith Kogel -- Some Palaeographical Observations on the Torah Scrolls from Medieval Cracow: Binding Fragments from the Jagellonian Library / By: Judith Olszowy-Schlanger -- Some Paleographical and Codicological Aspects of a Fragment of a Tiqqun Qorʾim Recently Found at the Archdiocesan Archive in Gniezno / By: Mikołaj Wojciechowski -- The Early Hebrew Script of Southern Italy Brought to the Rhineland in the 9th c. and the Writing of the 11th–13th c. Epitaphs of Jewish Cemeteries / By: Mauro Perani -- History of Research: “Anathema upon Anyone Who Would Destroy This Codex”: Hebrew Fragments in Hebraist Hands / By: Ilona Steimann -- Indexes