Andreas Lehnardt, PhD (1999), is Professor of Jewish Studies at Mainz University. He is the Head of a project on Hebrew binding fragments in Germany. He is the editor of 'Genizat Germania'. Hebrew and Aramaic Binding Fragments from Germany in Context (Brill, 2010).Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, PhD (1995), is Professor of Hebrew Manuscript Studies at the Section des Sciences historiques et philologiques (Historical and Philological Sciences), École Pratique des Hautes Études, Sorbonne. She is the author of Karaite Marriage Contracts from the Cairo Geniza. Legal Tradition and Community Life in Mediaeval Egypt and Palestine (Brill 1997).

• Editor’s forewordIntroduction: ‘Books within books’ – The State of Research and new Developments Andreas Lehnardt and Judith Olszowy-SchlangerPart I: History of ResearchCarta pecudina literis hebraicis scripta: The Awareness of the Binding Hebrew Fragments in History. An Overview and a Plaidoyer Saverio CampaniniPart II: Studies in Hebrew FragmentsThe First Autograph of the Tosafists from the European Genizah Simha EmanuelThe Reconstruction of a Sefer haftarot from the Rhine Valley: Towards a first Typology of Ashkenazi Pentateuch Manuscripts Judith KogelA Newly-discovered Fragment from Midrash Tanhuma in the Collection of Western European Manuscripts in the Russian State Library (Moscow) Alina LisitsinaJosephus Torn to Pieces – Fragments of Sefer Yosippon in Genizat Germania Saskia DönitzBinding Accounts: a Leger of a Jewish Pawnbroker from 14th Century Southern France (MS Krakow, BJ Przyb/163/92) Judith Olszowy-SchlangerHebrew Fragments as a Window on Economic Activity: Holdings in the Historical Archives of Girona (Arxiu Històric de Girona) Esperança Valls PujolPart III: Regional ProjectsA Regional Perspective on Hebrew Fragments: The Case of Moravia Tamás Visi and Magdaléna JánošíkováBindings and Covers: Fragments of Books and Notebooks from the Angelica Library (Biblioteca Angelica, Rome) Emma AbateMedieval Hebrew Manuscript Fragments in Switzerland: Some Highlights of the Discoveries Justine IsserlesNewly Discovered Hebrew Fragments in the State Archive of Amberg (Bavaria) - Some Suggestions on their Historical Background Andreas LehnardtEuropean Fragments in the Spines of the Book Collection of a Yemenite Community Michael KruppGenizat Yerushalayim: The National Library of Israel in Jerusalem Abraham DavidFragments as Objects: Medieval Austrian Fragments in the Jewish Museum of Vienna Martha Keil