Dear Colleague,
We are very pleased to announce the availability of a landmark work in Geniza Studies. Dr. Elazar Hurvitz has spent many years cataloguing the Geniza fragments at Westminster College in Cambridge, England. The result is this 2-volume masterpiece of scholarship, an essential reference work for scholars in the field. Ordering information is below. Catalogue of the Cairo Geniza Fragments in The Westminster College Library, Cambridge by Elazar Hurvitz Yeshiva University New York: Cairo Geniza Institute, Yeshiva University, 2006 VOL. I: The Cairo Geniza. A Historical Introduction to the Antiquity and Discovery of the Geniza from Cairo, Egypt VOL. II: Catalogue of the Cairo Geniza fragments in the Westminster College Library The Lewis-Gibson Collection. Including a detailed description and identification of over 2,500 fragments written in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. A forthcoming Vol. III will include the publication of selected texts from the Westminster College fragments. It will contain important discoveries in various fields of Jewish studies and supplementary material of fragments from the very same manuscripts that are scattered in other libraries which possess fragments from the Cairo Geniza. A more detailed description of this work may be viewed at the website of Schoen Books:<http://www.schoenbooks.com/>http://www.schoenbooks.com/ Order exclusively from: SCHOEN BOOKS 7 Sugarloaf Street, South Deerfield, MA 01373 Tel.: 413-665-0066 and email: <<mailto:sch...@schoenbooks.com>mailto:sch...@schoenbooks.com><mailto:sch...@schoenbooks.com>sch...@schoenbooks.com Please contact Ken Schoen to order and arrange payment method (credit card, paypal or check accepted); universities can be invoiced. ______ HARDCOVER (in Hebrew with English Introduction in Vol. I) ISBN: 978-0-615-31448-8 Vol. I: 22, 172, XIII pp. Vol. II: 23, 237 pp. + 40 pages of plates Price for volumes I and II: $250.00 + S&H ($25 USA and $50 airmail foreign) Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org