Miriam Frenkel: 'Circles of Trade and Love; Commercial Networks in the Mediterranean Trade: Evidence from the Cairo Geniza'

Prof. Miriam Frenkel is Professor at the Department of Jewish History and head of the Institute of History at the Hebrew University. She also heads the Ben Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East and is Vice President of the Society for Judeo Arabic Studies. Prof. Frenkel’s main fields of research are Geniza studies, cultural and social history of Medieval Judaism in the lands of Islam, and medieval cultural encounters between Judaism and Islam. She recently authored `The Compassionate and Benevolent`; Jewish Ruling Elites in the Medieval Islamicate World`, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2021.