Discover medieval medicine through the eyes of Maimonides
The British Friends of Haifa University have the pleasure of inviting you to an Exhibition Private Viewing and Lecture by Professor Efraim Lev The Department of Land of Israel Studies, University of Haifa.
At the Royal College of Physicians
11 St Andrew's Place,
Regent's Park,
NW1 4LE
Sunday, 30th October 2011
3.00 - 6.00PM
3.00pm – Private viewing of "Gems from the Cairo Genizah"
4.30pm – Lecture
We look forward to seeing you!
Ticket £35 (including light refreshments) / Limited availability
friends@haifa-univ.org.uk020 7724 3777
A unique opportunity to see rare documents discovered in an ancientsynagogue in Cairo - Moshe Ben Maimonides' letters written by his ownhand, alongside prescriptions, sacred texts, legal deeds and otherdocuments - a window to the Jewish medieval world in Cairo.
Prof Efraim Lev B.A, Ms.C., Ph.D. (1999), is a senior lecturer at the Dept. of Land of IsraelStudies and School of Public Health at Haifa University. He is a leading expert on ethnopharmacologyand history of medicine and pharmacology in the Levant.
Haifa University is the only comprehensive research university in northern Israel. With themost pluralistic student body in Israel, it boasts innovative centres of excellence in fields suchas Health and Welfare, Education and Marine Sciences.