Mark R. Cohen

Cohen (born 1943) is a Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University . His research specialty is Jews in the Muslim world. He is considered to be one of the leading scholars of the history of Jews in the Middle Ages under Islam . His research relies greatly on documents from the Cairo Geniza . He is also the head of the Geniza Project at Princeton University - a project that aims to place an extensive number of medieval documents on an online search engine (as of March 2007, there were approximately 4000 documents in the database). The project's headquarters are located at the S.D. Goitein Geniza Research Lab, where many of Goitein's personal books and notes are stored. Cohen received his undergraduate degree at Brandeis University , his master's degree at Columbia University , and his doctorate at the Jewish Theological Seminary . He currently lives in New York City .

Cohen (born March 11, 1943) is an American scholar, currently professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University specializing in Jews in the Muslim world. He is a leading scholar of the history of Jews in the Middle Ages under Islam . His research relies greatly on documents from the Cairo Geniza . He also heads the Geniza Project at Princeton University, which aims to place an extensive number of medieval documents on an online search engine (as of March 2007, the database contained about 4000 documents). The project is headquartered at the S.D. Goitein Geniza Research Lab, where many of Goitein's personal books and notes are stored. Cohen earned his undergraduate degree at Brandeis University , his master's degree at Columbia University , and his doctorate at the Jewish Theological Seminary . He currently lives in New York City .

Cohen (born March 11, 1943) is an American scholar of Jewish history in the Muslim world. He is a scholar of the history of Jews in the Middle Ages under Islam . His research relies greatly on documents from the Cairo Geniza . From 1985 until his retirement in 2013 Cohen also led the Geniza Lab at Princeton University, which aims to make the Geniza corpus available and searchable online (as of 2013, the database contained 4,320 documents). The project is headquartered at the S.D. Goitein Geniza Research Lab, where many of Goitein's personal books and notes are stored. In 2014 Cohen was a visiting professor at New York University Abu Dhabi . Cohen won the 1981 National Jewish Book Award in the Jewish History category for his book Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996. Cohen earned his undergraduate degree at Brandeis University , his master's degree at Columbia University , and his doctorate at the Jewish Theological Seminary . Cohen's Princeton University Faculty Page "Cohen is one of the most important scholars of his generation in the study of the history of Jews in the Islamic world." Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times: A Festschrift in Honor of Mark R.

Cohen (born March 11, 1943) is an American scholar of Jewish history in the Muslim world . He is a scholar of the history of Jews in the Middle Ages under Islam . His research relies greatly on documents from the Cairo Geniza . From 1985 until his retirement in 2013, Cohen led the Princeton Geniza Lab, which aims to make the Cairo Geniza's corpus available and searchable online. As of 2023, the database contains 400,000 documents. The project was headquartered at the Shelomo Dov Goitein Geniza Research Lab, where many of Goitein's books and notes are stored, but is now separate. Department of Near Eastern Studies . Cohen is one of the most important scholars of his generation in the study of the history of Jews in the Islamic world.