We are partnering with the Mandell JCC of Greater Hartford 

and hosting a Brunch Presentation Open to the Public

“Gems from the Cairo Genizah: Practical and Theoretical Medicine in Medieval Eastern Societies”

by Dr. Moshe Lavee and Dr. Efraim Lev

Center for Interdisciplinary Study of the Cairo Genizah

University of Haifa, Israel

on: Sunday, September 7, 2014 at 10:00am

at the Mandell JCC of Greater Hartford

335 Bloomfield Avenue West Hartford, CT 06117

UConn Center for Judaic Studies is hosting two visiting scholars from the University of Haifa.  Professors Efraim Lev and Moshe Lavee, are the co-directors of University of Haifa’s recently established Interdisciplinary Center for the Broader Application of Genizah Research, which seeks to use newly available digital technologies to foster wider and more diverse use of the extraordinary historical archives of the Cairo Genizah.  (If you are unfamiliar with the Cairo Genizah, you can get a quick sense of it from the site of Cambridge’s digital collection: http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/genizah)

Professor Lev is trained as a historian of medicine and an ethno-pharmacologist.  Much of his research centers on the records of plant remedies and other medicinal knowledge that has been preserved in the Genizah fragments.

Professor Lavee is trained as a scholar of rabbinic literature and his research focuses on the transmission and peregrinations of rabbinic texts throughout the classical and medieval periods:  https://haifa.academia.edu/MosheLavee

We welcome your attendance at this brunch event, open to the public, where they will present some of their fascinating work on the Genizah .

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