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Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt

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306 Seiten
Englisch
Princeton University Presserschienen am11.09.2005
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 studies poverty in a premodern Jewish community - from the viewpoint of both the poor and those who provided for them.mehr
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KlappentextWhat 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 studies poverty in a premodern Jewish community - from the viewpoint of both the poor and those who provided for them.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-691-09272-0
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2005
Erscheinungsdatum11.09.2005
Seiten306 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 161 mm, Höhe 240 mm, Dicke 23 mm
Gewicht683 g
Artikel-Nr.13973722
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GenreGeschichte/Politik

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix Note xiii Introduction 1 Chapter One: A Taxonomy of the Poor 33 Chapter Two: The Foreign Poor 72 Chapter Three: Captives, Refugees, and Proselytes 109 Chapter Four: Debt and the Poll Tax 130 Chapter Five: Women and Poverty 139 Chapter Six: "Naked and Starving," the Sick and Disabled 156 Chapter Seven: Beggars or Petitioners? 174 Chapter Eight: Charity 189 Chapter Nine: Conclusion: Poverty and Charity, Continuity and Acculturation 243 Bibliography 253 Index of Geniza Texts 271 General Index 278mehr

Autor

Mark R. Cohen is Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and a well-known authority on the Cairo Geniza and the history of the Jews in the medieval Islamic world. His publications include more than 80 articles and reviews and several books, among them: Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt (Princeton), which won the National Jewish Book Award for Jewish history in 1981; Jewish Life in Medieval Egypt 641-1382, translated into Arabic, 1987; The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena's Life of Judah, (Princeton); and, most recently, Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages, (Princeton), which has been translated into Hebrew, Turkish, and German.