A Jewish Mediterranean Society in the Late Middle Ages / Abraham David (SCH-163)
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A Jewish Mediterranean Society in the Late Middle Ages as reflected from Cairo Genizah Documents by Abraham David
457 pp. including Indices and illustrations, soft cover. Hebrew.
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Jerusalem and New York 2016
ISBN 978-965-456-068-9
The Cairo Genizah has for the last hundred and
twenty years served as an inexhaustible source for understanding Jewish life in
the East in the Middle Ages and Early-Modern period. This research is dedicated
to the contribution of these documents to our understanding of the social and
economic world of the Jews in the countries of the Middle East, and especially Egypt, The Land of Israel and to some extent, Syria in the period beginning in the Sixteenth Century, which saw many changes and a shift from decay to blossoming, followed by another period of decay in the end of the Sixteenth Century leading up to the early Seventeenth Century.
Herein are presented a collection of twenty one
essays of Dr. Abraham David, published first over four decades ago in respected research
venues. These essays reflect changes and developments that have occurred within
the Jewish Mediterranean society in the period mentioned above.
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