Conference “The Status of Converts to Judaism” - Session 6 : Medieval period (2)
Channel: Centre de Recherche Français à Jérusalem
Date: 2022-06-24

Session 6 of the conference “The Status of Converts in Jewish Communities and Jewish Thought, from Biblical Times to Contemporary Israel”, co-organized by the Centre de Recherche Français à Jérusalem (CRFJ) and the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters of Ben Gurion University (BGU), with the financial support of the A*Midex foundation of Aix-Marseille University.

Lectures by Marzena Zawanowska (Warsaw University, Poland) and Moshe Yagur (Ben Gurion University), on Medieval Jewish sources from Karaite circles and documents from the Geniza.

Marzena Zawanowska : "The Medieval Karaites Exegetes Attitude Towards Conversion and Converts"
Moshe Yagur : "Proselytes Real and Imagined in Medieval Egypt : a View From the Cairo Geniza "

The whole conference was recorded on Zoom.

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