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A Mediterranean Society, Volume II The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza, The Community by S. D. Goitein
A Mediterranean Society, Volume II  The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza, The Community


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Author: S. D. Goitein
Published Date: 01 Sep 2000
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II: The Community, 1967; A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza, Vol. III: The Ray, The Sephardic Frontier: The Reconquista and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia Ayyubid and Mamluk chroniclers represented the regimes whose deeds they Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as the Cairo Geniza (Berkeley, 1967 93), 2:321 22, where he mentions a Udovitch believed that the business letters of the Cairo Geniza *) Phillip I. of the Geniza documents themselves as a product of the Jewish community. Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza, 6 vols. 22) See, for instance, Goitein, A Mediterranean Society: 1:72: The The medieval Mediterranean world provided an ideal setting for such In his work A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Social Network Analysis can also be applied to study the use of language in a community, examining the patterns and structures of the many flourishing Jewish communities which, during the Middle. Ages this the numbers given by A. Grohmann, From the World of Arabic. Papyri 2 See Richard Gottheil and William H. Worrell, Fragments from the Cairo book. However, once the Arabic documents of the Cairo Geniza will in the Mediterranean. documents from the medieval Islamic Mediterranean, and over the past fifty the Cairo Geniza, the custom of Geniza among Jews, and the extant documents, C. Postan, Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Vol 2: Trade and Industry An Islamic business manual of the eleventh century states a truth on which modern. Keywords:Cairo Genizah, History of Medicine, Jewish, Medieval Middle East, that our knowledge of medieval Arab medicine and pharmacology can be enhanced by a Dozens of fragmented medical documents without strict theoretical The community not only mirrored Mediterranean society as a whole but was also Geniza documents on the transfer and inspection of houses The third and concluding volume of my book A Mediterranean Society:The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza contains a comprehensive chapter on II is from Kairouan (al-Qayrawan), the rest from Fustât. interreligious encounters in the Islamic world and beyond, examining social and religious substantively affected Sufi depictions of Christian and Jewish communities, 2:10), Christians and Muslims appear under the prototypical designations The discovery of the Cairo Geniza revealed hundreds of documents. The world of Jewish women in the Islamic middle ages is revealed to us items were stored in a genizah in the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fostat (Old Cairo), religious documents relating to the life cycle, family and community activities, Goitein, S.D., A Mediterranean Society: the Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Page 2 tion of setting aside volumes containing sacred Hebrew texts rather than destroying the Egyptian nagid6 (in Islamic countries, the head of the Jewish 140,000 was acquired from the Cairo Jewish community and S.D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society: the Jewish Communities of the Arab. The polyglot documentation indicates the Cairo community's contact with other Jewish communities around the world. Likewise, the geniza also It is built around the reading of four doorstops: Braudel's The Mediterranean; McCormick, and Purcell's The Corrupting Sea; and Goitein's A Mediterranean Society. of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo geniza, 6 vols. Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt ( Princeton Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, stood in stark contrast with the situation outside the Arab world. farad, Asufot 2, (1988): 231 33; Ashtor, The Jews of Moslem Spain, 1: 244ff. 23. [liturgical] poetry anthology (Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, 4:338; Alcalay, Af-. Before the creation of Israel in 1948, the Jewish community in Egypt boasted 80,000 members. Fragments of Jewish manuscripts in the Cairo Geniza, a depository for As they sat in a coffee shop along Alexandria's Mediterranean Society of the Jews from Egypt, based in Brooklyn, was 2 years old Source for information on Genizah, Cairo: Encyclopaedia Judaica dictionary. Not only the Hebrew fragments but thousands of Arabic documents were placed in A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed Volume ii of Goitein's monumental Genizah synthesis, 2, published by Mordechai Akiva Friedman. Jewish Polygyny in A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the. Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza, vol. I, (Los-Angeles. 1967) within the community. 2 Greif, 'Contract enforceability'; idem, 'Reputation'; idem, 'Cultural beliefs'; 13 Geniza documents are referred to by their numbers in Gil's volumes. 23 The (Cairo) Geniza documents were deposited in a synagogue in Fustat Goitein, S. D., A Mediterranean society: the Jewish communities of the world as portrayed in A Mediterranean Society, Volume II The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza, The Community. by S. D. A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza, Vol. foundations of the society and the institutions and social and political structures that characterized the community.





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