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Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt

Author : Mark R. Cohen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400853583
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt written by Mark R. Cohen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt

Author : Mark R. Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608033150
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt written by Mark R. Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jewish Self-government in the Middle Ages

Author : Louis Finkelstein
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Self-government in the Middle Ages written by Louis Finkelstein and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1972 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the constitutional activities of the European Jewish communities during the Middle Ages. Various texts, in Hebrew with English translations, describe the enactments of the different synods.

Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt

Author : Mark R. Cohen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400826780
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt written by Mark R. Cohen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Monarchic Principle

Author : David Goodblatt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783161587627
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book The Monarchic Principle written by David Goodblatt and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Under Crescent and Cross

Author : Mark R. Cohen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400844339
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Under Crescent and Cross written by Mark R. Cohen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Muslims and Jews in the Middle Ages cohabit in a peaceful "interfaith utopia"? Or were Jews under Muslim rule persecuted, much as they were in Christian lands? Rejecting both polemically charged ideas as myths, Mark Cohen offers a systematic comparison of Jewish life in medieval Islam and Christendom--and the first in-depth explanation of why medieval Islamic-Jewish relations, though not utopic, were less confrontational and violent than those between Christians and Jews in the West. Under Crescent and Cross has been translated into Turkish, Hebrew, German, Arabic, French, and Spanish, and its historic message continues to be relevant across continents and time. This updated edition, which contains an important new introduction and afterword by the author, serves as a great companion to the original.

The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages

Author : Mark R. Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691092621
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages written by Mark R. Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Cohen presents not only a case-study of medieval Jewish life, but structural aspects of poverty and charity generally un-noticed. His anthology comprises letters and other documents used in his earlier work 'Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt'.

The Jews of Medieval Islam

Author : Daniel Frank
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004493239
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Jews of Medieval Islam written by Daniel Frank and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains fifteen articles on the communal, social, and intellectual life of medieval Jewry in Islamic lands. The book is divided into three parts. Part I, 'Communities and Their Leaders' is devoted to the old Babylonian center in the East and the Andalusian community in the West. Part II, 'Self-Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Others' investigates the ways in which medieval Jews living under Islam viewed their gentile neighbours and expressed their own identity. Part III, 'Religious Philosophy, Mysticism, and Spirituality in Islam and Judaism' explores the impact of Islamic thought on the Jewish intellectual tradition. The collection depicts a civilization at once unified and diverse, revealing both consistent patterns of leadership and scholarship as well as distinctively local identities and collective memories.

The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages

Author : Mark R. Cohen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691092713
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages written by Mark R. Cohen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Cohen presents not only a case-study of medieval Jewish life, but structural aspects of poverty and charity generally un-noticed. His anthology comprises letters and other documents used in his earlier work 'Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt'.

Fustat on the Nile

Author : Bareket
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004476458
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Fustat on the Nile written by Bareket and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Fustat Egypt which sits on the River Nile' - this is how the Jews called their city. Coalition and opposition, power struggles between leaders who were aided by local Jewish pressure groups and abetted by the Muslim authorities - these were a few of the characteristics of the leadership in the Jewish community of Fustat, the largest and liveliest of the Jewish communities in the eleventh century. The author follows the activities of these leaders and analyzes their motives in the light of the complex relationships developing in the community between the different ethnic groups, while in the background the traditional centers of Jewish authority in Palestine and Babylon battle each other for control of the Jewish people. The survey of the dramatic events was made by analysis of documents and letters from the Geniza in Cairo.

Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004267840
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together articles on various aspects of cultural, religious, social and commercial interactions between Jews, Christians and Muslims in the medieval and early modern periods.

The Monarchic Principle

Author : David M. Goodblatt
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Monarchic Principle written by David M. Goodblatt and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Jews in Medieval Egypt

Author : Miriam Frenkel
Publisher : Lands and Ages of the Jewish P
ISBN 13 : 9781618117465
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Jews in Medieval Egypt written by Miriam Frenkel and published by Lands and Ages of the Jewish P. This book was released on 2021 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004435409
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Under Crescent and Cross

Author : Mark R. Cohen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691010823
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Under Crescent and Cross written by Mark R. Cohen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Jews in the Middle ages

Harmony and Discord

Author : Eric Zimmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Harmony and Discord written by Eric Zimmer and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Jew in the Medieval World

Author : Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher : Scribner Paper Fiction
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Jew in the Medieval World written by Jacob Rader Marcus and published by Scribner Paper Fiction. This book was released on 1969 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of medieval Judaism may be considered under two aspects: what the world did to the Jew and what the Jew did for himself. Both aspects are interrelated, but not necessarily dependent. Whether the world had been benign and pacific or--as it was--hostile and cruel, the Jew would still have prayed, studied, entered professions, traveled, organized communal endeavors, in a phrase, pursued the normal activities of social life. To the extent, however, that he was harassed and persecuted, the Jew responded: he defended himself and replied to his enemies. Jacob R(ader) Marcus, Professor of American Jewish History at Hebrew Union College, has gathered, edited, and introduced those documents from the medieval literature which illuminate the Jewish community in both aspects: as self-contained society (the documents relating to Jewish self-government; Jewish sectarianism, mysticism, messianism; the inner life of the Jew; the lives and works of Jewish notables--Rashi, Maimonides, Glückel of Hameln, Solomon Maimon, among others) and as society-on-sufferance in an alien world (the Jewish situation under Roman law, under Islam, under Visigoths; treatment at the hands of the feudal and monarchical societies, the Roman Catholic Church and the reformers).--Back cover.