This story is expanded in the final chapter of Adina Hoffman's and Peter Cole's recent book on the Genizah, Sacred Trash (Shocken/Nextbook: 2011), including a juicy description of how witnesses were tricked into coming to Wuhshah's apartment to "discover" the father of her son, Hassun. Wuhshah's story is part of a fascinating coda to an excellent book about the Genizah and how the discovery, and subsequent century of scholarship, have filled in and changed our understanding of Jewish life in the Middle Ages.
This story is expanded in the final chapter of Adina Hoffman's and Peter Cole's recent book on the Genizah, Sacred Trash (Shocken/Nextbook: 2011), including a juicy description of how witnesses were tricked into coming to Wuhshah's apartment to "discover" the father of her son, Hassun. Wuhshah's story is part of a fascinating coda to an excellent book about the Genizah and how the discovery, and subsequent century of scholarship, have filled in and changed our understanding of Jewish life in the Middle Ages.