The Jewish Quarterly Review
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Total Pages | : 818 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Jews |
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Total Pages | : 818 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Jews |
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Author | : Eve Krakowski |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2019-03-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0691191638 |
Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movements of great men. How did women participate in the societies these texts describe? What about non-Muslims, whose own religious traditions descended partly from pre-Islamic late antiquity? Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt approaches these questions through Jewish women’s adolescence in Fatimid and Ayyubid Egypt and Syria (c. 969–1250). Using hundreds of everyday papers preserved in the Cairo Geniza, Eve Krakowski follows the lives of girls from different social classes—rich and poor, secluded and physically mobile—as they prepared to marry and become social adults. She argues that the families on whom these girls depended were more varied, fragmented, and fluid than has been thought. Krakowski also suggests a new approach to religious identity in premodern Islamic societies—and to the history of rabbinic Judaism. Through the lens of women’s coming-of-age, she demonstrates that even Jews who faithfully observed rabbinic law did not always understand the world in rabbinic terms. By tracing the fault lines between rabbinic legal practice and its practitioners’ lives, Krakowski explains how rabbinic Judaism adapted to the Islamic Middle Ages. Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt offers a new way to understand how women took part in premodern Middle Eastern societies, and how families and religious law worked in the medieval Islamic world.
Author | : Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2014-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0804787166 |
The Cairo Geniza is the largest and richest store of documentary evidence for the medieval Islamic world. This book seeks to revolutionize the way scholars use that treasure trove. Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman draws on legal documents from the Geniza to reconceive of life in the medieval Islamic marketplace. In place of the shared practices broadly understood by scholars to have transcended confessional boundaries, he reveals how Jewish merchants in Egypt employed distinctive trading practices. Highly influenced by Jewish law, these commercial practices served to manifest their Jewish identity in the medieval Islamic context. In light of this distinctiveness, Ackerman-Lieberman proposes an alternative model for using the Geniza documents as a tool for understanding daily life in the medieval Islamic world as a whole.
Author | : Elisheva Baumgarten |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2017-01-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812248686 |
Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century provides a multifaceted account of Jewish life in Europe and the Mediterranean basin at a time when economic, cultural, and intellectual encounters coincided with heightened interfaith animosity.
Author | : Menachem Elon |
Publisher | : Jewish Publication Society of America |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Author | : Elka Klein |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780472115228 |
Traces the development of the Jewish community in Barcelona from 1050 to 1300 and its interactions with greater Catalan society and its rulers
Author | : Menachem Elon |
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Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Jewish law |
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Author | : Louis M. Epstein |
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Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Ketubah |
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Author | : Lina Girgis |
Publisher | : Petra Books |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2020-10-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1989048625 |
These insightful stories reveal existential moments in the lives of women as they journey to self-fulfillment. Lina’s insightful short stories reveal hidden existential moments in the lives of women as they journey to self-fulfillment. “Lina’s style engaged not only my thoughts and feelings but also my five senses. I couldn’t put the book down. Each story left me with powerful emotions, an influential reflection, a hopeful inspiration, or a logical question.” — Christine Antonious, Montessori Teacher, Edmonton. “The stories touched me in the deepest places ... The whole book is a true human experience, combining and intertwining East and West.” — Rafael Sasson, Financial Advisor, New York. “Lina’s writing is beautiful in a way that both educates and entertains. This book takes you to all parts of the world at different eras, stimulating imagination and all of the senses.” — Julie Brown, Career Consultant, Calgary.
Author | : Robert Brody |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300070477 |
The Geonic period from about the late sixth to mid-eleventh centuries is of crucial importance in the history of Judaism. The Geonim, for whom this era is named, were the heads of the ancient talmudic academies of Babylonia. They gained ascendancy over the older Palestinian center of Judaism and were recognized as the leading religious and spiritual authorities by most of the world's Jewish population. The Geonim and their circles enshrined the Babylonian Talmud as the central canonical work of rabbinic literature and the leading guide to religious practice, and it was a predominantly Babylonian version of Judaism that was transplanted to newer centers of Judaism in North Africa and Europe. Robert Brody's book -- the first survey in English of the Geonic period in almost a century -focuses on the cultural milieu of the Geonim and on their intellectual and literary creativity. Brody describes the cultural spheres in which the Geonim were active and the historical and cultural settings within which they functioned. He emphasizes the challenges presented by other Jewish institutions and individuals, ranging from those within the Babylonian Jewish setting -- specially the political leadership represented by the Exilarch -- to the competing Palestinian Jewish center and to sectarian movements and freethinkers who rejected rabbinic authority altogether. He also describes the variety of ways in which the development of Geonic tradition was affected by the surrounding non-Jewish cultures, both Muslim and Christian. "This book is a fresh and thorough examination of the period in question, a masterpiece of scholarship and erudition". -- Neil Danzig, Jewish Theological Seminary