The Jews in medieval Egypt /
"Jews lived in Egypt over many centuries, from biblical times until the middle of the previous century. Nevertheless, Jewish life in medieval Islamic Egypt was for many years an obscure and understudied theme. The present book offers the reader a wide-ranging picture of Jewish life in medieval...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Brookline, MA :
Academic Studies Press,
2021
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| Series: | Lands and ages of the Jewish people.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Between the Hellenistic world and the Cairo Genizah: The Jewish community in late antique Egypt / Tal Ilan
- A concise history of Islamic Egypt / Yehoshua Frenkel
- The community's borders: Converts and renegades / Moshe Yagur
- Communal self-government: The Genizah period / Mark R. Cohen
- Introduction to the legal arena / Oded Zinger
- Jewish economic life in medieval Egypt: Images, theories, and research / Jessica Goldberg
- Jewish family life in medieval Egypt / Miriam Frenkel
- Situating Egyptian pietism / Elisha Russ-Fishbane
- Languages and language varieties used by medieval Egyptian Jews / Esther-Miriam Wagner
- Hebrew poetry in medieval Egypt / Joseph Yahalom
- The last phase: The Jews in medieval Egypt under the Mamluks (1250-1517) / Amir Mazor.
