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THE JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESENTS
Genizah Scribes at Work
Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Historiques et Philologiques
Professor Olszowy-Schlanger will explore the social and economic status of the scribes represented in the Cairo Genizah and examine their different domains (books or legal documents), their education, and the methods of scribal practice. Olszowy-Schlanger is a Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies [SIMS]/Herbert D. Katz Center Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Manuscript Studies. The fellowship, funded in part by the David Ruderman Distinguished Scholar fund, pairs a prominent scholar in any field of Jewish studies with a manuscript in one of our collections.
The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies & the Herbert D. Katz Center Distinguished Fellowship in Jewish Manuscript Studies.
Free and open to the public (please show photo ID at entrance)