Genizah Fragments at the Rylands, Centre for Jewish Studies

GENIZAH FRAGMENTS AT THE RYLANDS

The AHRC Rylands Cairo Genizah Project
September 2006-August 2009

The AHRC Rylands Cairo Genizah Project is digitising and cataloguing the 11,000 fragments in the Rylands Genizah collection. The images and the accompanying descriptions are available on the University website.

You can access the Rylands Genizah image collection and catalogue at http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/insight/genizah.htm.

For the latest news, forthcoming events and general information relating to the Project please visit us at http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/specialcollections/collections/specialprojects/genizah/.

You can also read about the origins of the Project at http://www.mucjs.org/jhrylands.htm.

The current staff of the project comprise:

Professor Philip Alexander, Principal Investigator
Dr Renate Smithuis, Cataloguer / Research Fellow
Anna Harper, Cataloguing Assistant
James Robinson, Part-Time Photographer
Dr Stella Butler, Project Manager

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The Co-Directors of the Centre are:
Professor Philip Alexander, Professor of Post-Biblical Jewish Literature
Professor Bernard Jackson, Alliance Professor of Modern Jewish Studies

Centre for Jewish Studies, Department of Religions and Theology
University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL
Tel: 0161-275 3614 Fax: 0161-275 3613 E-mail: cjs@man.ac.uk