Poverty and charity in the Jewish community of medieval Egypt / Mark R. Cohen.
By: Cohen, Mark R
Series: Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern worldPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2005.Description: xi, 287 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0691092729 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780691092720 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Jews -- Egypt -- Charities -- History | Poverty -- Religious aspects -- Judaism | Judaism -- Charities -- History | Jews -- Egypt -- Social conditions | Poor -- Egypt -- History | Judaism -- Relations -- Islam | Islam -- Relations -- Judaism | Cairo GenizahDDC classification: 362.5/089/924062 Other classification: 15.75
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Complemented by the author's collection of primary sources in translation, The voice of the poor in the Middle Ages: an anthology of documents from the Cairo Geniza, on which the research is based.
Includes bibliography (p. [253]-269) and indexes.
AESSO14, AES2014