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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-10-26
Total Pages: 723
ISBN-13: 9004435409
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Israel in Egypt is an investigation into the Jewish experience of the land and people of Egypt from antiquity to the middle ages. Using contemporary sources to explore the varied experience of Egypt’s Jews, the volume brings together a rich collection of studies from top scholars in the field.
Author: Joseph Modrzejewski
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780827605220
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the story of the adventures and misadventures of the Jewish people in the land of Egypt. The author uses the clear light of scientific analysis and archaeological research to illuminate the reality underlying the images from the Biblical accounts and Jewish and pagan literary texts, through the great “love affair” between Jews and Hellenic culture. It ends with the brief but crucial episode when budding Christianity and the Alexandrian Jews parted company.
Author: Miriam Frenkel
Publisher: Lands and Ages of the Jewish P
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781618117465
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jewish life in medieval Egypt, hitherto an obscure and understudied theme, is revealed in this volume in all its complexity and richness. This book offers the most recent scholarship on the communal, judicial, economic, lingual, familial, and spiritual aspects of Jewish life medieval Islamic Egypt.
Author: Mark R. Cohen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1400853583
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Under three successive Islamic dynasties--the Fatimids, the Ayyubids, and the Mamluks--the Egyptian Office of the Head of the Jews (also known as the Nagid) became the most powerful representative of medieval Jewish autonomy in the Islamic world. To determine the origins of this institution, Mark Cohen concentrates on the complex web of internal and external circumstances during the latter part of the eleventh century. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: W. M. Flinders Petrie
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-09
Total Pages: 41
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'The Status of the Jews in Egypt' is a book penned by W. M. Flinders Petrie. The book is a lecture delivered as part of The Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture project, which was overseen by the Jewish Historical Society of England, with the object of fostering Hebraic thought and learning in honor of an unworldly scholar. A lecture is to be given annually in the anniversary week of his death, to which on this particular occasion, Petrie discussed the history of Jews in Egypt.
Author: Mark R. Cohen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009-01-10
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1400826780
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Ann Rosalie David
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780195132151
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the lifestyles of the ancient Egyptians including, economy and industry, foreign trade and transportation, architecture, and more.