Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 10:30AM 
Research impact at University of Manchester. Renate Smithius reports how the conservation, digital imaging and cataloguing of 15,000 manuscripts from a synagogue store-room (a Genizah) in Old Cairo, now housed in the John Rylands Library in Manchester, has thrown a flood of light on 1000 years of Jewish history in Muslim lands. Further information.
IMAGE CREDITS: Illumination from a 14th century Spanish Passover Haggadah, showing the Israelites walking through the Red Sea. © John Rylands University Library of Manchester.
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