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In August 2007, leading scholars from the world of Genizah Studies assembled in Cambridge for a conference marking the retirement of Stefan Reif, Professor of Medieval Hebrew at the University of Cambridge and founder of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit. This collection of papers demonstrates the breadth and vitality of Genizah Studies today, much of which is due to Reif’s efforts over his thirty-three years as director of the Unit. See a recent review of the book here.

Cairo Genizah. --- Jews --- Judaism --- Manuscripts, Hebrew --- History --- History. --- Cambridge University Library. --- Cairo Genizah

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The Cairo Genizah has preserved a vast number of medieval and post-medieval letters written in the Jewish variety of Arabic. The linguistic peculiarities of these letters provide an invaluable source for the understanding of the history of the Arabic language and the development of Arabic dialects. This work compares and contrasts various linguistic features of Judaeo-Arabic letters from different periods, and is one of the first studies to present a comprehensive linguistic investigation into non-literary Judaeo-Arabic. Its main focus is to provide an extensive diachronic linguistic description, while distinguishing between features of epistolary Arabic and vernacular phenomena. This study should be of interest to anyone working on the Arabic language, sociolinguistics, general historical linguistics and language typology. '...in the extant volume she [Wagner] has clearly demonstrated that Judeo-Arabic letters are to be viewed as primary source material, capturing important aspects of language understanding of Jews and Judaism in the medieval and early modern Islamic world, and therefore providing essential insights into the linguistic function of a substandard language or ethnolect like Judeo-Arabic.' Wout van Bekkum, BiOr numbers LXX 3/4

091 =927 --- 091 =924 --- 296*62 --- 809.21 --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Arabisch --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Hebreeuws --- Joodse theologie en filosofie in de middeleeuwen --- Akkadisch. Sumerisch --- 809.21 Akkadisch. Sumerisch --- 296*62 Joodse theologie en filosofie in de middeleeuwen --- 091 =924 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Hebreeuws --- 091 =927 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Arabisch --- Arabic language --- Cairo Genizah --- Jews --- Judeo-Arabic language --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Genizah --- Manuscripts, Hebrew --- Dialects --- Judeo-Arabic --- Languages --- Judeo-Arabic language. --- Cairo Genizah. --- Dialects.