A Mediterranean Society, Volume VI - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Mediterranean Society, Volume VI write by S. D. Goitein. This book was released on 1994-03-09. A Mediterranean Society, Volume VI available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This six-volume "portrait of a Mediterranean personality" is a composite portrait of the individuals who wrote the personal letters, contracts, and all other manuscript fragments that found their way into the Cairo Geniza. Most of the fragments from the Geniza, a storeroom for discarded writings that could not be thrown away because they might contain the name of God, had been removed to Cambridge University Library and other libraries around the world. Professor Goitein devoted the last thirty years of his long and productive life to their study, deciphering the language of the documents and organizing what he called a "marvelous treasure trove of manuscripts" into a coherent, fascinating picture of the society that created them. It is a rich, panoramic view of how people lived, traveled, worshiped, and conducted their economic and social affairs. The first and second volumes describe the economic foundations of the society and the institutions and social and political structures that characterized the community. The remaining material, intended for a single volume describing the particulars of the way people lived, blossomed into three volumes, devoted respectively to the family, daily life, and the individual. The divisions are arbitrary but helpful because of the wealth of information. The author refers throughout to other passages in his monumental work that amplify what is discussed in any particular section. The result is an incomparably clear and immediate impression of how it was in the Mediterranean world of the tenth through the thirteenth century. Volume VI, prepared by Paula Sanders, is a volume of cumulative, analytical indices.
A Mediterranean Society
A Mediterranean Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Mediterranean Society write by S. D. Goitein. This book was released on 1967. A Mediterranean Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Mediterranean Society
A Mediterranean Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Mediterranean Society write by S. D. Goitein. This book was released on 1967. A Mediterranean Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "One of the best comprehensive histories of a culture in this century."—Amos Funkenstein, Stanford University
A Mediterranean Society
A Mediterranean Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Mediterranean Society write by Shelomo Dov Goitein. This book was released on 1999. A Mediterranean Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. S.D. Goitein's five-volume work on Jewish communities in the medieval Mediterranean world has been abridged and reworked into this volume that captures the essential narratives and contexts.
The Jews Of Egypt
The Jews Of Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jews Of Egypt write by Maurice Mizrahi. This book was released on 2019-09-10. The Jews Of Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Jewish community of Egypt in modem times-now practically non-existent-consisted in part of autochthonous Jews who traced their origins to the periods of Maimonides, Philo, and even the prophet Jeremiah, thus making it the oldest community in the Jewish Diaspora. It also contained Jews who were part of the waves of immigration into Egypt that began in the second half of the nineteenth century. Coming mostly from Mediterranean countries, this predominantly Sephardic community maintained a network of commercial, social, and religious ties throughout the entire region, as well as a distinctively Mediterranean culture and life-style. In this volume, international scholars examine the Ottoman background of this community, the political status and participation of the Jews in Egyptian society, their role in economic life, their contributions to Egyptian-Arabic culture, and the images of the community in their own eyes, as well as in the eyes of Egyptians and Palestinian Jews. The book includes an extensive set of appendixes that illustrate the wide range of primary sources used by the contributors.
