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Discarded History: The Genizah of Medieval Cairo

Discarded History: coming soon

For a thousand years the Jewish community of Old Cairo put their worn-out writings into a synagogue storage room, a genizah. Explore one of the greatest collections of Cambridge University Library and a remarkable survival of the medieval past. Opening in Cambridge in April 2017 Discarded History: The Genizah of Medieval Cairo will provide a window on the life of a community a thousand years ago – a Jewish community in the centre of a thriving Islamic empire, international in outlook, multicultural in make up, devout to its core.

Public exhibition: 27 April 2017 – 28 October 2017

Monday – Friday 09:00–18:00

Saturday 09:00–16:30

Sunday closed

Cambridge University Library Milstein Exhibition Centre

Free admission – all welcome

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Contributors to Remembering the Reformation
Contributors to Remembering the Reformation

This exhibition is a testament to the fruitfulness of collaborative work—not only among the members of our research team, but between our project and a number of research institutions and their staff.

Lines of Thought films
Lines of Thought films

A series of films has been specially commissioned to mark the University Library’s 600th anniversary and to accompany the Lines of Thought exhibition. Each month for the duration of the exhibition a new film will launch, discussing one of the themes.