Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt /

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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 commu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cohen, Mark R., 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Liefdadigheid.
Joden.
Armoede.
Poverty > Religious aspects > Judaism
Poor
Judaism
Jews > Social conditions
Jews > Charities
Islam
Interfaith relations
Cairo Genizah
HISTORY > Medieval.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
Genizah du Caire.
Islam > Relations > Judaïsme.
Judaïsme > Relations > Islam.
Pauvres > Égypte > Histoire.
Judaïsme > Oeuvres de bienfaisance > Histoire.
Pauvrete > Aspect religieux > Judaïsme.
Cairo Genizah.
Islam > Relations > Judaism.
Judaism > Relations > Islam.
Poor > Egypt > History.
Jews > Egypt > Social conditions.
Judaism > Charities > History.
Poverty > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Jews > Egypt > Charities > History.
Egypt
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 Cai.
Notas: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (312 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781400826780

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