New book: The Illustrated Cairo Genizah, by Nick Posegay and Melonie Schmierer-Lee

This book is part of celebrating 50 years since the founding of the Genizah Reseach Unit at Cambridge University Library in 1974. It’s a large, coffee-table style book (340 pp., published by Gorgias Press) with 320+ images of Genizah fragments alongside facts, stories, and questions written by GRU researchers Nick Posegay and Melonie Schmierer-Lee.


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About Maria Stürzebecher

I am the curator of the Museum Old Synagogue in Erfurt and scientific coordinator for the UNESCO World Heritage application Jewish-Medieval Heritage in Erfurt. Since 2012, I am editing the series "Erfurter Schriften zur Jüdischen Geschichte"; in 2020, the 6th volume "Ritual Objects in Ritual Contexts." was published. I studied History of Arts, Archaeology, Sociology and History and wrote my PhD thesis about the medieval Erfurt Treasure, which was published in 2009 entitled „Der Schatzfund aus der Erfurter Michaelisstrasse – Mittelalterliche Goldschmiedearbeiten als Zeugnisse jüdischen Lebens in Erfurt“.