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On Wings of Prayer : Sources of Jewish Worship ; Essays in Honor of Professor Stefan C. Reif on the Occasion of his Seventy-fifth Birthday by Nuria Calduch-Benages; Michael W Duggan; Dalia Marx; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Through an unparalleled combination of scholarly acumen and administrative ingenuity, Professor Stefan Reif effected an awakening in Genizah studies from lingering dormancy in the wake of the nineteenth century to enduring vibrancy at the dawn of twenty-first century and beyond. The vitality for this transformation originated in the infectious energy that Prof. Reif brought to his work daily over the course of 33 years. In March of 1973 he was appointed as an assistant under-librarian tasked with sorting out the contents of the Taylor-Schechter collection of Cairo Genizah materials at Cambridge University. In March of 2006, he retired as the founding Director of Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit. The transformation he brought to Genizah research over this time-span is reflected in his professional advancement as he was elected to a Fellowship of St. John's College (1998), appointed a professor of Medieval Hebrew Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies (1998), and admitted to the Litt. D. degree of the University of Cambridge (2002). A decade later, the University of Haifa recognized his accomplishments by awarding him a Ph.D honoris causa (2014). Stefan Reif is a strategist
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- Author
- Nuria Calduch-Benages; Michael W Duggan; Dalia Marx; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
- Publisher
- de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783110630725
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Judaism, Religion
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