Housed at Cambridge University's Genizah Research Unit, crib sheet with words in Hebrew, Arabic and a Romance dialect gives a glimpse into renowned philosopher's method of thinking
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By Pearl Markovitz | January 28, 2021
Teaneck’s Rinat Yisrael recently featured Professor Eve Krakowski, assistant professor of medieval Jewish History at Princeton, in a discussion of a controversial Maimonidean edict found among the thousands of rediscovered documents from the 1,000-year-old Cairo Genizah.
At the suggestion of her son Yitz, a Ph.D. student in the department of religion at Princeton University, Rinat’s Adult Education Chair Faye Landes was directed to award-winning filmmaker Michelle Paymar, whose recent documentary “From Cairo to the Cloud” provides the extraordinary story of the journey of the Cairo Genizah from medieval Cairo to our home computers via the cloud. The screening of the film will take place on Motzei Shabbat, January 31 at 8 p.m..