New Post of the Genizah Research Unit: Fragment of the Month November 2024

Read the new Post of the Genizah Research Unit with the Fragment of the Month November 2024: The Maldives and “the beginning of the season”: can we guess the sailing month mentioned in Madmūn b. Ḥasan’s letter? by Nazim Sattar 


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Maria Stürzebecher (December 1, 2024). New Post of the Genizah Research Unit: Fragment of the Month November 2024. medievalJewishStudiesNow! Retrieved November 10, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/12sty


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“.