#  Lecture: “The Jewish Courts of Tenth-Century Fustat: Clues to a Historical Mystery” 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 28, 2019** 

 04:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

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 **Harvard Semitic Museum Rm 201, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

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 The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations warmly invites you to attend an upcoming public lecture with **Eve Krakowski of Princeton University**, entitled ***“The Jewish Courts of Tenth-Century Fustat: Clues to a Historical Mystery.”***

 **Abstract:** 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.

 **Speaker biography:** 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, *Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture* (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 *Written Torah: The Reinvention of Judaism in the Islamic Mediterranean*.



 

 



 

 

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