Treasures from the Cairo Genizah
How the Arab Conquests Remade Judaism
Wed / Jan 12 / 12:00 pm / Online
Prof. Marina Rustow and Rabbi Savenor
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When Arab armies rode out into the Middle East in the seventh century, the world’s Jews were divided between two empires. Within a decade, they were reunited under a single political aegis, and for the next 500 years, the vast majority of world Jewry spoke Arabic and lived under Muslim rule. How did the advent of Islam change Jewish history?
Marina Rustow is a historian using the Cairo Geniza texts to shed new light on Jewish life and on the broader society of the medieval Middle East. Marina received a B.A. from Yale University and two master’s degrees – an M.Phil., and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is currently a professor at Princeton University in their Departments of Near Eastern Studies and History and director of the Princeton Geniza Lab. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2015.
Photo Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
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