<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Pontoons,<br><br>This lecture by my employer The Library of Congress may be of interest to folks doing Eastern personas. While most of us working stiffs won't be able to attend a noon lecture on a Monday, folks with more flexible schedules might want to make the trip. These lectures are all recorded and I'll endeavor to forward a link to the video in a couple weeks once it's processed and posted on the LOC's Webcasts page. Feel free to forward to any other lists that might be interested as well.<br><br>Description:<br>"A treasure trove of primary sources containing some 280,000 Jewish manuscript fragments was discovered in the geniza (storage room) of a synagogue in Cairo, Egypt, during the late-19th century. Known as the Cairo geniza, the material—dating from about A.D. 870—is now housed in
libraries throughout Europe and the United States."<br><br>"Sara Reguer, head of the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, has used the documents to explore various aspects of women’s lives under medieval Islam, with a special focus on their professions, their charitable activities and their education. She will deliver a lecture titled "The Cairo Geniza—the World of Jewish Women" at the Library of Congress at noon on Monday, Oct. 25 in the African and Middle Eastern Division Reading Room, Room 220 of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street S.E., Washington, D.C."<br><br>Event Press Release<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-210.html">http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-210.html</a></span><br><br>African & Middle Eastern Reading Room<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/">http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/</a></span><br><br><br>Votre
serviteur,<br><br>Tancred of Messina<br><br></div>
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