Abstract

Dr Esther-Miriam Wagner is a Research Associate at the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit preparing descriptions of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic Genizah manuscripts. Her main research interests include Judaeo-Arabic, Yiddish, the diachronic language change of Arabic, Arabic dialectology and language typology of Jewish languages.

This seminar is part of The World of the Cairo Genizah Series. Held in co-operation with the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit this lecture series aims to present the latest innovative research on a number of key themes of importance to the study of Muslim-Jewish relations within the context of the Cairo Genizah, an important cache of medieval manuscripts in Hebrew script discovered in the late nineteenth century in the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat (Old Cairo).