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Happy Birthday to Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s Cambridge University Library! Looking good after 90 years. 🥳

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Congratulations to Professor Ben Outhwaite on his appointment as Professor of Genizah Studies at Cambridge, recognizing his scholarship and leadership. We’re honored he co-edits our Cambridge Genizah Studies series (brill.com/CMGS). Learn more: lib.cam.ac.uk/genizah-fragme…

This new book recently arrived for our library! Dr. Nick Posegay (nposegay.bsky.social) and Melonie Schmierer-Lee of the Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library give a visual tour of some of the unique and amazing manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah, (re)discovered by Solomon Schechter and our own #SistersOfSinai in 1896.

Digging into this amazing piece of scholarship from Amy Balogh. 😮😮

New Medieval Books - here is the pile we are working through - any of these books you are interested in? #books

New podcast episode featuring A.J. Berkowitz's A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023). buff.ly/4fY9kiJ

New #Genizah interview with Drew Longacre, who is using Genizah manuscripts for a new critical edition of the Psalms. #Bible #Hebrew lib.cam.ac.uk/genizah-fragme…

The first egg of Eggatha Christie (normal size one for scale)

A honeybee with two differently-coloured pollens (from the German Bee Journal). Bees are by no means preprogrammed to be flower-constant. If flowers of two species are equally rewarding & in close proximity, bees sometimes visit both

Francis caught while he was about to leave a little Christmas gift on one of the contributors' copies.. stopped right on time!

The current British Museum exhibition ‘Silk Roads’ features 7 Genizah fragments from the Cambridge collection, reunited with an inscribed wood panel from the Ben Ezra synagogue: lib.cam.ac.uk/genizah-fragme…

Going to the The Metropolitan Museum of Art? Check out, Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now, which features Solange Ashby & her Gorgias Press book, Calling Out to Isis: The Enduring Nubian Presence at Philae. Save 40% in our sale. gorgiaspress.com/calling-out-to… #ancientegypt #books

It's still December, almost Hanukka, and Marc Michaels has produced an impressively named Fragment of the Month – could this be the earliest Esther scroll we have (not just in the Genizah)? lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/de…

After dark at Cambridge University Library.

If you happen to be in Tokyo on 7-8 March: I will deliver 4 workshops about the geniza. We will read letters, responsa and fragments from a book by Abraham Maimuni in Hebrew. On 10-12 of March another 4, different workshops in Doshisha University in Kyoto.

🐝Just in time for #WorldBeeDay, we have a new Queen Bee at the UL hive! 🐝 This queen, who is about 6 days old, needs a name. Can you help us think of one? 📷Photos by Melonie Schmierer-Lee #CambridgeUniversityLibary