European Genizah: Newly Discovered Hebrew Binding Fragments in Context

"European Genizah” refers to individual pages that were torn out of Hebrew manuscripts and used to bind books. These essays explore bindings discovered in libraries and archives throughout Europe.

Contents:
Part 1 Fragments of Unknown Texts.
Fragments from a Palestinian Rabbinic Work in the European Genizah / Simcha Emanuel
An Ashkenazic Halakhic Fragment from a Book Binding in Leiden University Library / Yakov Z. Mayer and Alexander van der Haven
An Unknown Fragment of a Money Lending Ledger from Dresden Municipal Archive / Abraham David

Part 2 Fragments of Known Texts.
Fragments of Midrash Sifra on Leviticus in the Baden State Library in Karlsruhe / Andreas Lehnardt
A “New” Fragment of Sifre Numbers, Wroclaw I-F-205 / Amit Gvaryahu
Two New Fragments of Midrash Bereshit Rabbah in the State and University Library Bremen / Andreas Lehnardt

Part 3 Overviews on Fragment Collections.
Loans of Books and Kabbalah in the Fragments from the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome / Emma Abate
Newly Discovered Hebrew Binding Fragments from the Austrian “Genizah”: Progress Report in the Project: http://hebraica.at / Neri Y. Ariel
Revelation in Girona: Lost Literature from the “Jerusalem of Catalonia” / Leor Jacobi
A Rare Piyyuṭ Text Used as a Binding Fragment in Torat Moshe (Venice, 1601) Held in the University of Sydney Library / Gary A. Rendsburg

Part 4 Palaeography and Codicology.
Between Writing and Drawing: A Few Remarks about Medieval Ashkenazi Bibles and Pentateuchs / Judith Kogel
Some Palaeographical Observations on the Torah Scrolls from Medieval Cracow: Binding Fragments from the Jagellonian Library / Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
Some Paleographical and Codicological Aspects of a Fragment of a Tiqqun Qorʾim Recently Found at the Archdiocesan Archive in Gniezno / Mikołaj Wojciechowski
The Early Hebrew Script of Southern Italy Brought to the Rhineland in the 9th c. and the Writing of the 11th–13th c. Epitaphs of Jewish Cemeteries / Mauro Perani

Part 5 History of Research.
“Anathema upon Anyone Who Would Destroy This Codex”: Hebrew Fragments in Hebraist Hands / Ilona Steimann