Documents Of The Jewish Pious Foundations From The Cairo Geniza
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Documents Of The Jewish Pious Foundations From The Cairo Geniza
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Author : Moshe Gil
language : en
Publisher: Brill Archive
Release Date : 1976-01-01
Documents Of The Jewish Pious Foundations From The Cairo Geniza written by Moshe Gil and has been published by Brill Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976-01-01 with Religion categories.
Documents Of The Jewish Pious Foundations From The Cairo Geniza
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Author : Gil
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-09-20
Documents Of The Jewish Pious Foundations From The Cairo Geniza written by Gil and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-20 with Religion categories.
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Author : אורה ואזה
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
written by אורה ואזה and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Cairo Genizah categories.
Karaite Marriage Documents From The Cairo Geniza
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Author : Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1998
Karaite Marriage Documents From The Cairo Geniza written by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Social Science categories.
The edition and linguistic, palaeographic and legal analysis of 65 marriage documents preserved in the Cairo Geniza shed a unique light on the socio-economic and intellectual history of the mediaeval Karaite Jews who wrote them.
Jews In Islamic Countries In The Middle Ages
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Author : Moše Gîl
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Jews In Islamic Countries In The Middle Ages written by Moše Gîl and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with History categories.
This book contains studies on the Jews in Muslim countries in the early Middle Ages, and is based on an extensive use of both Jewish and Muslim mediaeval sources. "Jews in Islamic Countries in the Middle Ages" has been selected by "Choice" as Outstanding Academic Title (2005).
Poverty And Charity In The Jewish Community Of Medieval Egypt
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Author : Mark R. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-10
Poverty And Charity In The Jewish Community Of Medieval Egypt written by Mark R. Cohen and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-10 with History categories.
What was it like to be poor in the Middle Ages? In the past, the answer to this question came only from institutions and individuals who gave relief to the less fortunate. This book, by one of the top scholars in the field, is the first comprehensive book to study poverty in a premodern Jewish community--from the viewpoint of both the poor and those who provided for them. Mark Cohen mines the richest body of documents available on the matter: the papers of the Cairo Geniza. These documents, located in the Geniza, a hidden chamber for discarded papers situated in a medieval synagogue in Old Cairo, were preserved largely unharmed for more than nine centuries due to an ancient custom in Judaism that prohibited the destruction of pages of sacred writing. Based on these papers, the book provides abundant testimony about how one large and important medieval Jewish community dealt with the constant presence of poverty in its midst. Building on S. D. Goitein's Mediterranean Society and inspired also by research on poverty and charity in medieval and early modern Europe, it provides a clear window onto the daily lives of the poor. It also illuminates private charity, a subject that has long been elusive to the medieval historian. In addition, Cohen's work functions as a detailed case study of an important phenomenon in human history. Cohen concludes that the relatively narrow gap between the poor and rich, and the precariousness of wealth in general, combined to make charity "one of the major agglutinates of Jewish associational life" during the medieval period.
Karaite Marriage Contracts From The Cairo Geniza
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Author : Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-10-11
Karaite Marriage Contracts From The Cairo Geniza written by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-11 with Religion categories.
This book is the first comprehensive study of legal, historical and economic aspects of marriage as practised during the Middle Ages, in Egypt and Palestine, by members of distinct Jewish movement known as Karaism. This study is based on original mediaeval manuscripts written in Hebrew, and recovered from the famous Cairo Geniza. Sixty-five manuscripts, most of them previously unpublished, are edited and translated in the second part of the book. The detailed and accessible analysis of their contents, language, formulation and palaeography sheds a new light on Karaite legal and linguistic tradition, and provides a unique source for our understanding of early Karaism, and of Mediaeval Jewish History in general.
A Jewish Archive From Old Cairo
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Author : Stefan Reif
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
A Jewish Archive From Old Cairo written by Stefan Reif and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with Social Science categories.
Explains how Cairo came to have its important Genizah archive, how Cambridge developed its interests in Hebraica, and how a number of colourful figures brought about the connection between the two centres. Also shows the importance of the Genizah material for Jewish cultural history.
Coming Of Age In Medieval Egypt
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Author : Eve Krakowski
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-19
Coming Of Age In Medieval Egypt written by Eve Krakowski and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-19 with Religion categories.
Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movements of great men. How did women participate in the societies these texts describe? What about non-Muslims, whose own religious traditions descended partly from pre-Islamic late antiquity? Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt approaches these questions through Jewish women’s adolescence in Fatimid and Ayyubid Egypt and Syria (c. 969–1250). Using hundreds of everyday papers preserved in the Cairo Geniza, Eve Krakowski follows the lives of girls from different social classes—rich and poor, secluded and physically mobile—as they prepared to marry and become social adults. She argues that the families on whom these girls depended were more varied, fragmented, and fluid than has been thought. Krakowski also suggests a new approach to religious identity in premodern Islamic societies—and to the history of rabbinic Judaism. Through the lens of women’s coming-of-age, she demonstrates that even Jews who faithfully observed rabbinic law did not always understand the world in rabbinic terms. By tracing the fault lines between rabbinic legal practice and its practitioners’ lives, Krakowski explains how rabbinic Judaism adapted to the Islamic Middle Ages. Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt offers a new way to understand how women took part in premodern Middle Eastern societies, and how families and religious law worked in the medieval Islamic world.
The Lost Archive
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Author : Marina Rustow
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-14
The Lost Archive written by Marina Rustow and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-14 with Religion categories.
A compelling look at the Fatimid caliphate's robust culture of documentation The lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909–1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina Rustow tells the story of this extraordinary find, inviting us to reconsider the longstanding but mistaken consensus that before 1500 the dynasties of the Islamic Middle East produced few documents, and preserved even fewer. Beginning with government documents before the Fatimids and paper’s westward spread across Asia, Rustow reveals a millennial tradition of state record keeping whose very continuities suggest the strength of Middle Eastern institutions, not their weakness. Tracing the complex routes by which Arabic documents made their way from Fatimid palace officials to Jewish scribes, the book provides a rare window onto a robust culture of documentation and archiving not only comparable to that of medieval Europe, but, in many cases, surpassing it. Above all, Rustow argues that the problem of archives in the medieval Middle East lies not with the region’s administrative culture, but with our failure to understand preindustrial documentary ecology. Illustrated with stunning examples from the Cairo Geniza, this compelling book advances our understanding of documents as physical artifacts, showing how the records of the Fatimid caliphate, once recovered, deciphered, and studied, can help change our thinking about the medieval Islamicate world and about premodern polities more broadly.