The Jews in Medieval Egypt

Herausgeber: Frenkel, Miriam

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a wide-ranging picture of Jewish life in medieval Egypt as depicted by most recent scholarship. Starting from the last phases of the Byzantine era and ending with the Mamluk period, the book presents a scholarly yet vivid description of Jewish communal organization, judiciary, economic frameworks, family life, and lingual practices.

Produktdetails

• The Lands and Ages of the Jewish People
• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781618117465
• ISBN-10: 1618117467
• Artikelnr.: 60103083

Autorenporträt

Miriam Frenkel is Professor of Medieval Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the Menahem Ben-Sasson Chair in Judaism & Islam Through the Ages and head of the School of History.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction
Miriam Frenkel
1. Between the Hellenistic World and the Cairo Genizah: The Jewish
Community in Late Antique Egypt
Tal Ilan
2. A Concise History of Islamic Egypt
Yehoshua Frenkel
3. The Community's Borders; Converts and Renegades
Moshe Yagur
4. Communal Self-Government: The Genizah Period
Mark R. Cohen
5. Introduction to the Legal Arena
Oded Zinger
6. Jewish Economic Life in Medieval Egypt: Images, Theories, and Research
Jessica Goldberg
7. Jewish Family Life in Medieval Egypt
Miriam Frenkel
8. Situating Egyptian Pietism
Elisha Russ-Fishbane
9. Languages and Language Varieties Used by Medieval Egyptian Jews
Esther-Miriam Wagner
10. Hebrew Poetry in Medieval Egypt
Joseph Yahalom
11. The Last Phase-The Jews in Medieval Egypt under the Mamluks (1250-1517)
Amir Mazor
Bibliography