Community Hub visit to the Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library

The Community Hub group has arranged a guided tour to the Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library.

The collection is a window on the medieval world and has been colourfully described as ‘a refuge for writings’ and ‘a battlefield of books’. Its 193,000 manuscript fragments, mainly in Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, Aramaic and Arabic, are an unparalleled resource for the academic study of Judaism, Jewish history and the wider economic and social history of the Mediterranean and Near East in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period.

Please meet at the library for the tour to commence at 12 noon. 

Venue:

Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DR.

Please contant the synagogue office if you can offer/would like a lift to the venue.

Tickets:

£10.00 pp (we have a limited amount of tickets so book early to avoid disappointment).