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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Eve Krakowski, "The Jewish Courts of Tenth-Century Fustat: Clues to a Historical Mystery"
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SUMMARY:Eve Krakowski, "The Jewish Courts of Tenth-Century Fustat: Clues to a Historical Mystery"
DESCRIPTION:<p>	<em>Abstract:</em> Thousands of Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic legal documents from medieval Egypt and Syria survived in the Cairo Geniza. This talk will zoom in on the earliest layer of this corpus, which offers indirect clues to a lost history of Judaism during the first Islamic centuries.</p><p>	<em>Speaker biography:</em> Eve Krakowski is an assistant professor of Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies at Princeton University. She is a social historian of the medieval Middle East and its Jewish populations, interested especially in family life and in the mundane settings of legal and religious practices. Her first book, <em>Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture</em> (Princeton, 2018) examines women’s transition to adulthood among the Jews reflected in the Cairo Geniza. She is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled <em>Written Torah: The Reinvention of Judaism in the Islamic Mediterranean.</em></p>
LOCATION:Harvard Semitic Museum, Room 201 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
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DTSTART:20191028T200000Z
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